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standard international trade classification  

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  • The Standard International Trade Classification is a classification system maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division. The system is used to provide a standardized classification of imported and exported goods, in order to make it feasible to compare sets of import/export data regardless of country, and to have accurate data about international trade. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World; Standard International Trade Classification]

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