Definition: Trade margin

European System of Accounts (ESA)

Difference between the actual or imputed price realised on a good purchased for resale and the price that would have to be paid by the distributor to replace the good at the time it is sold or otherwise disposed of (ESA 2010, ESA 1995). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-02-13-269&mode=view uropean Union, Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union, Official Journal of the European Union No L 174, 26.06.2013, p. 1 - 727

Eurostat, "European System of Accounts - ESA 1995", Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1996Eurostat, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), "Eurostat-OECD Methodological Guide for Developing Producer Price Indices for Services (Second Edition)", Luxembourg, Paris, 2014