CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE


CHANGES TO COUNTRY NAME PRESENTED ON A COUNTRY BASIS

From March 2013 reference period name changes to the ABS trade country classification have been applied as follows:

Country	New name
Burma (Republic of Myanmar)	Myanmar, Republic of
East Timor, Dem Rep of	Timor-Leste

These changes affect time series spreadsheet table 2 and data cube tables 8 and 9 from this issue of this publication.


AMENDMENT TO SCHEDULE 4 OF CUSTOMS TARIFF

The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service introduced significant amendments to Schedule 4 of the Customs Tariff Act which were implemented on 1 March 2013. More detail is available in Australian Customs Notice 2012/55.

The Information Paper: Amendments to Schedule 4 of Customs Tariff (cat. no. 5368.0.55.019) which provides information on new treatment codes, commodity codes and a correspondence between the ceasing codes and the replacement codes was released on the ABS website on 19 March 2013.

These changes to treatment code and commodity classifications have been applied from March 2013 reference period imports statistics and impact on statistics available on request. These changes do not impact on statistics in this publication.