South African Foreign Trade Statistics (Customs and Excise)¶


Kind	international trade or finance data
Producer	Commissioner for Customs and Excise / Republic of South Africa
Coverage	1957-2004
Works using it	4

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Becker (1988)	Republic of South Africa (1984), Foreign Trade Statistics (trade flows by commodity section, 1983-84, with UK, Japan, US and West Germany detail)	1983-1984	Table 6 gives imports and exports by commodity and partner, used to show the composition of trade and the share of manufactures in US imports.
Becker (1988)	Republic of South Africa, Foreign Trade Statistics, 1985 (1984 import sources by country)	1984	Table 5 lists sources of South African imports by nation, used to judge the likelihood of concerted sanctions among major trading partners.
Fine and Rustomjee (1996)	Foreign trade statistics, Commissioner for Customs and Excise	1980s	Trade classified under HS and ISIC is the basis for sectoral export shares, with reclassification of 'classified' trade categories.
Kirsten et al. (2007)	Customs and Excise trade data	1988-2004 for sugar; various	Export and import volumes and the processed-to-raw sugar export ratio used to build the sugar reference price.
Union of South Africa, Government Printer (1958)	Preliminary statement of shipping, import duties, imports and exports, January–February 1958 (Notice No. 213)	January–February 1958 vs 1957	Gives imports by port and exports by commodity (gold-related, diamonds, wool, maize, minerals), with gold bullion sales noted from the Reserve Bank.