Consultation outcome

Consultation on cessation of Asymmetries statistical releases

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

This document is the HMRC response to feedback received through our Asymmetries Releases consultation.

It contains a brief background to the consultation, a summary of the response we received, and an outline of our intended action as a result.

We have decided not to discontinue the Asymmetries releases but we will be reducing the size of any accompanying commentary to focus more on basic summaries and headlines.


Original consultation

Summary

HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) Trade Statistics & Customs Analysis unit is proposing to discontinue our series of Asymmetries releases.

This consultation ran from
to

Consultation description

This data will continue to be available on the UN Comtrade Database and Eurostat Easy Comext.

We are requesting feedback on this proposal in order to better understand user needs and priorities and ensure that these will continue to be appropriately met. All responses will be taken into consideration before a final decision is reached.

Please provide your views through the questionnaire at the back of the consultation document linked below and return it to:

uktradeinfo@hmrc.gov.uk

We will publish a response along with our intended action later in the year.

Documents

Asymmetries Releases Consultation Paper (including Questionnaire)

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Asymmetries Consultation Response

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Published 5 May 2021
Last updated 24 August 2021 + show all updates
  1. This Consultation has now closed and HMRC have published the response.

  2. First published.