Statistical Domain

Forestry statistics

Purpose

This classification is designed to cover the entire spectrum of primary and secondary wood and paper products. It encompasses not only more commonly produced and traded wood and paper products for which FAO, Eurostat, the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) collect statistics on a regular basis, but also wood-based products created in recent years. The classification includes: wood taken from forests or from trees outside forests; bark and cork; charcoal; wood and wood-based materials resulting from the first processing of wood available from forest operations (e.g. sawnwood, railway sleepers, veneer sheets, wood pulp and wood residues); materials resulting from the further processing of some of these materials (e.g. wood-based panels, paper and paperboard); and recovered paper and recoverable wood products.

Main Users

Users of datasets on forest products disseminated by international organizations (FAOSTAT, ITTO Statistics database and UNECE's Timber database).

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Concept Being Classified

Goods

Relationship to Other International Classifications

Classification of Forest Products - SITC Rev.4
Classification of Forest Products - Harmonized System (HS)
Classification of Forest Products - Customs Cooperation Council Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs (CCCN)
Classification of Forest Products - International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC)
Classification of Forest Products - UN Classification by Broad Economic Categories (BEC)
Classification of Forest Products - Central Product Classification (CPC) Ver.2.1

Classification Structure

Correspondence with Other Classifications

HS 2022
www.wcoomd.org/en/topics/nomenclature/instrument-and-tools/hs-nomenclature-2022-edition/hs-nomenclature-2022-edition.aspx

HS 2017
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/classifications/Econ/Structure
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/trade/classifications/SeriesM_53_Rev.5_17-01722-E-Classification-by-Broad-Economic-Categories_PRINT.pdf

CPC Ver. 2.1
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/classifications/Econ/Structure–ISIC 4
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/publication/seriesm/seriesm_4rev4e.pdf

SITC Rev.4
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/trade/sitcrev4.htm
SITC Rev. 4 - CN 2007-CN 2022

SITC Rev.4
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/relations/index.cfm?TargetUrl=LST_REL&StrLanguageCode=EN&IntCurrentPage=17

Revision Information

Chronology of revisions/versions of the classification:
First revision: 1973
Second revision: 1982

Website:
https://www.fao.org/forestry-fao/statistics/en/

Official Adopting Entity:
Joint FAO/ECE Working Party on Forest Economics and Statistics

Coordinating Entity:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Reason for Latest Revision:
At its 29th meeting in February 2015, the IWG recommended the updating of the classification to reflect developments in the major international classifications and in forest product markets. The IWG considered that such an update should maintain a similar structure to previous versions while incorporating recent changes in the JFSQ definitions and international classifications and making reference to the seventh edition of the General Nomenclature of Tropical Wood, published by the Association Technique Internationale des Bois Tropicaux in 2016. FAO began developing the current revision in 2015. The process involved the production of a working paper in 2016; its presentation to a meeting of the UNSD Expert Group on International Statistical Classifications in 2017; consultations with the UNSD Expert Group on International Statistical Classifications and the FAO/UNECE Team of Specialists on Forest Products Statistics; and incorporation of the comments received in 2018. Further enhancements to the draft in 2019–2020 included correspondence of forest product classifications and definitions with the recently approved structure of the Harmonized System (HS) 2022 edition.

Major Changes:
The 2022 revision includes cross-references to HS 2017; HS 2022; the Central Product Classification (CPC) Ver.2.1; the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) Rev.4; the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) Rev.4; and the Classification by Broad Economic Categories (BEC) Rev.5.

Contact Information

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Unit:
Forestry Division

Email:
[email protected]

Address:
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome Italy

Status

Operational

Website

https://www.fao.org/forestry-fao/statistics/en/

Custodian

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Year Adopted

1981

Year Published

1982

Availability

Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish

Statistical Domain

Forestry statistics

Purpose

This classification is designed to cover the wood and wood-based products for which Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) collect statistics on a regular basis. Included is wood taken from forests or from trees outside the forest, bark and cork; charcoal; wood and wood-based materials resulting from the first processing of the wood available from forest operations (including sawnwood, railway sleepers, veneer sheets, wood pulp and wood residues); and materials resulting from further processing of some of these materials (e.g. wood-based panels, paper and paperboard); recovered paper and recoverable wood products.

Main Users

Users of datasets on forest products disseminated by international organizations (FAOSTAT, UNECE's Timber database).

Concept Being Classified

Goods

Relationship to Other International Classifications

Classification of Forest Products - SITC Rev.2
Classification of Forest Products - Harmonized System (HS)
Classification of Forest Products - Customs Cooperation Council Nomenclature for the Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs (CCCN)
Classification of Forest Products - International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC)
Classification of Forest Products - UN Classification by Broad Economic Categories (BEC)

Classification Structure

Revision Information

Year Adopted:
1950

Title or Version Number:
SITC 1950

Website:
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/classifications/Econ

Official Adopting Entity:
UN Statistical Commission

Coordinating Entity:
Inter-Agency Task Force on International Trade Statistics

Reason for Latest Revision:
Major change was updating of the most recent goods with up-to-date technology and current economic importance. SITC Rev 4 retains the overall structure of SITC, revision 3 and consists of the same number of sections and groups. The changes made were at the level of basic heading and some subgroups. It took into considerations changes in codes of HS88 (which SITC Rev.3 based on) and HS07 (which SITC Rev.4 based on)

Official Adopting Entity:
UN Statistical Commission

Coordinating Entity:
Inter-Agency Task Force on International Trade Statistics

Reason for Latest Revision:
Major change was updating of the most recent goods with up-to-date technology and current economic importance. SITC Rev 4 retains the overall structure of SITC, revision 3 and consists of the same number of sections and groups. The changes made were at the level of basic heading and some subgroups. It took into considerations changes in codes of HS88 (which SITC Rev.3 based on) and HS07 (which SITC Rev.4 based on)

Classification Structure

Revision Information

Chronology of revisions/versions of the classification:

Year Adopted:
1981

Website:
https://www.fao.org/forestry-fao/statistics/en/

Official Adopting Entity:
Joint FAO/ECE Working Party on Forest Economics and Statistics

Coordinating Entity:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Next Review:
2016

Reason for Latest Revision:
In 1979 the Joint FAO/ECE Working Party on Forest Economics and Statistics recommended that the classification should be brought up to date to take account of revisions of the Standard International Trade Classification, the work of the Customs Cooperation Council on a harmonized commodity description and coding system, and to take account of changes in technology, industry and trade practice and the appearance of new products. It was also recommended that this revision should ensure that the needs of all regions of the world are accommodated.

Major Changes:
The 1982 revision included cross-references to SITC and HS. The classifications has not been revised since 1982.

Contact Information

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Forestry Division
Email:
[email protected]
Address:
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome Italy