Honey export volume by tariff heading, rolling twelve months

How to read this figure

Method

ODEPA publishes one row per year, month, tariff code, region of origin and country of destination. Each category's figure is the sum of the rows for the window's months under the tariff codes for natural honey, grouped by tariff heading, and the observatory computes that sum. Each month is read from the file with which that month of the series «Honey export volume» was published, and the sum of the categories is compared with the published sum of those twelve months: if they differ by more than the rounding of the figures, the figure is not published. The source reports weight in net kilograms and the series publishes it in tonnes, divided by 1000.

Limitations

The tariff separates organic honey from other natural honey since 2012; before that it has a single heading for all natural honey. The heading is the one the exporter declares, and the series does not check that honey declared organic is certified. A rolling figure is published once the twelve months of its window are published. Rolling figures for consecutive months share almost all of their window, so their difference is not that of a single month. It measures what is declared at customs, not what is produced or consumed.

Confidentiality

No threshold. ODEPA does not identify the exporter or say how many contribute to each figure, so there are no units to count; the series publishes a breakdown the source already publishes in more detail.

Revision policy

The figure is recalculated when ODEPA publishes a new version of the file for a year the window covers. The months of the current year and the previous year are provisional, and so is any figure that uses them. If a correction moves a country into or out of the group, or leaves it with no operations, its earlier figure stays in the history and is no longer current.