Acronyms
ORGANIZATIONS
BEA
Bureau of Economic Analysis (U.S. Department of Commerce)
BIS
Bank for International Settlements
BLS
Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Department of Labor)
EC
European Communities
EIA
Energy Information Administration
EUROSTAT
Statistical Office of the European Communities
FTD
Foreign Trade Division (Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce)
GAO
U.S. General Accounting Office
GATT
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
IMF
International Monetary Fund
IRS
Internal Revenue Service (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
ITA
International Trade Administration (U.S. Department of Commerce)
NBER
National Bureau of Economic Research
NIH
National Institutes of Health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
OECD
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OMB
U.S. Office of Management and Budget
USDA
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USTTA
U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration (U.S. Department of Commerce)
STATISTICAL TERMS AND SYSTEMS
ABI
Automated Broker Interface (Customs Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury)
AERP
Automatic Export Reporting Program (Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce)
ARCH
autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic models
ARIMA
autoregressive, integrated, moving average models
AES
Automated Export System
ASM
Annual Survey of Manufactures (Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce)
CMIR
Currency and Monetary Investments Report (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
COMPRO
Computerized Data Program on Foreign Trade (maintained by ITA)
CPC
central product classification
EIN
employer identification number
GARCH
generalized ARCH
HS
Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
IBF
international banking facility
NIPA
national income and products accounts (U.S. Department of Commerce)
NTDB
National Trade Data Bank (U.S. Department of Commerce)
OLS
ordinary least squares
SED
shipper's export declaration
SIC
standard industrial classification
SITC
standard international trade classification
SNA
system of national accounts (developed under the auspices of the United Nations)
SOI
Statistics of Income (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
SSEL
Standard Statistical Establishment List (Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce)
TCMP
Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program (IRS, U.S. Department of the Treasury)
TIC
Treasury International Capital (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
TSUSA
Tariff Schedule of the United States Annotated
OTHER
AOQL
average outgoing quality limit
CD-ROM
compact disk-read only memory
c.i.f.
cost-insurance-freight
CIRS
continuous independent review system
f.a.s.
free-along-side
FDI
foreign direct investment
f.o.b.
free-on-board
GNP
gross national product
JASA
Journal of the American Statistical Association
MOT
mode of transportation
NVOCC
non-vessel operating commercial carrier
PIERS
Piers Import/Export Reporting Service
SCB
Survey of Current Business
TRIMS
trade-related investment measures
