A generic term referring to any short-term sales agreement. Generally it refers to single shipment orders with delivery expected in less than one month. Goods sold on this basis are usually off-the-shelf and not subject to customization. Spot market prices are subject to discounting and directly reflect current market conditions.

A tariff that is levied at a specific rate per physical unit of the particular item (e.g., $100 per tonne). Contrast with Ad valorem tariff.

The pricing methodology whereby a manageable sample of precisely specified products is selected, in consultation with each reporting establishment, for repeat pricing. Products are fully defined in terms of all characteristics which influence their transaction prices.

A description or list of the characteristics that can be used to identify an individual sampled product to be priced. A tight specification is a fairly precise description of an item intended to narrow the range of items from which a price collector might choose, possibly reducing it to a unique item, such as a particular brand of television set identified by a specific code number.

The special trade system is in use when the statistical territory comprises only a particular part of the economic territory.

The results of Community statistics refer to special trade, which covers:
(a) immediate imports and exports from warehouses for free circulation, imports for inward processing and imports after outward processing (customs procedures);

(b) exports of Community goods after inward processing and exports for outward processing (customs procedures). Goods in transit and warehouse traffic are not included in Community statistics

Shuttle trade refers to the activity in which individual entrepreneurs buy goods abroad and import them for resale in street markets or small shops. Often the goods are imported without full declaration in order to avoid import duties.

The price at the time the order is delivered to the purchaser.

Is material of varying size, both mineral and organic that is being, or has been, moved from its site of origin by the action of wind, water, gravity, or ice, and comes to rest elsewhere on the earth’s surface.

Is an activity carried out within a single producer unit in addition to the principal activity and whose output, like that of the principal activity, must be suitable for delivery outside the producer unit.