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Department of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics
The Department of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics is located at Calcutta. Its functions comprise
- Commercial intelligence
- Collection, compilation, and publication of the statistics of trade, tariffs, and shipping
It is the pioneer official organization for collection, compilation and dissemination of India’s Trade Statistics and Commercial Information. For over one hundred and fifty years this Directorate is serving the nation relentlessly as the principal authority on trade related information in India. The quality of information both in terms of authenticity and timeliness has made this organisation a veritable trade intelligence warehouse not only in India, but also across the globe.
This Directorate, with its office located at Kolkata, is headed by the Director General, an Additional Secretary level officer of Indian Statistical Services (ISS). It is entrusted with the work of collecting, compiling and publishing/disseminating trade statistics and various types of commercial information required by the policy makers, researchers, importers, exporters, traders as well as overseas buyers. It is the first large scale data processing organization functioning as a nodal agency for Export & Import data in the country with ISO certification 9001:2015 for Compilation and Dissemination of India’s foreign trade statistics.
