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Broad Economic Categories - Was originally devised mainly for the summarization of data on international trade by large economic classes of commodities. In addition, it was designed to serve as a means for converting external trade data compiled on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) into end use categories that are meaningful within the framework of the System of National Accounts (SNA) namely capital goods, intermediate goods and consumption goods. Each category of the BEC is defined in terms of divisions, groups, sub-groups and basic headings of SITC.