Following criticism of a method for estimating the impact of missing trader fraud on import/export data, we got an EU grant to study all the potential data sources and methods.
Six strands of work over 6 months.
We concluded the current method was the best available.
The UK press, who'd happily piled on the data criticism, attended the press conference and basically said telling them that was the best method was a waste of their time.
Eurostat published the paper and the UK media ignored it.









