Purpose of introduction

Statistics on foreign trade of the EU Member States and intra-EU trade.

Classification object

Countries and territories.

Area of application

Coding of countries and territories for statistical needs.

Author

Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)

Planned update or revision

Revised at 1 to 4 year intervals.
The present version of classification is operational from the 1st of January 2021.

Coding system, code length, number of levels

About 250 categories identified by two-letter codes.
Single-level.