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Foreign trade statistics

Literature › Primary sources

Kind official statistical series
Producer Customs and Excise / DTI / SARS
Coverage 1910-1995
Works using it 7

Debates

Debate Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 3
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 2
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Christopher (1994a) South Africa: Monthly Abstract of Trade Statistics 1993 1993 Supports the claim of imbalance between trade patterns and levels of diplomatic representation.
Kerby (2016a) Foreign Trade Statistics 1975-1985 (Department of Customs and Excise/Trade), with DTI declassified returns 1985-1992, SARS balance of trade database 1992-1995 1975-1995 Core source for the new bilateral trade series by SIC/HS category used to measure export diversification to Taiwan.
Kerby (2016b) Foreign Trade Statistics 1975-1985 (Department of Customs and Excise/Department of Trade and Industry) and declassified DTI annual returns 1986-1992 1975-1992 Digitised to build the new bilateral trade series by SIC/HS category used in Chapter 4.
Kerby (2016b) South African Revenue Service (SARS) balance of trade database, 1992-1995 (HS codes) 1991-1995 Supplies post-sanctions monthly/annual trade flows to extend the series to 1995.
Lumby (1974) Annual Statement of the Trade and Shipping of the Union of South Africa, 1910-1939 1910-1939 Provides import and export values of footwear, cement, printing products and raw materials, used for import-substitution ratios and foreign-exchange deficit tables.
McCarthy (1988) South African export statistics by SITC category, 1960-84 (manufactured exports share) 1960-1984 Used to show manufactured exports remained 30-45% of non-gold exports with no clear increase, and that basic metals dominate.
Overseas Development Institute (1986) 1984/1985 South African trade data by country and commodity (unspecified series) 1984-1985 Establishes trade concentration (eight countries took 71% of non-gold exports) and estimates the share of exports affected by EEC and US measures.
Rustomjee (1991) RSA Foreign Trade Statistics, 1985 1985 Defines the 'Unclassified Goods'/special categories (military stores, petroleum, gold) excluded from the comparison and notes petroleum's reclassification after 1979.