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Item : 3.2
Report of the Task Force on
Statistics on International Trade
in Services (TFSITS)
Bangkok 10-11 March 2009
OECD Statistics Directorate
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Outline
1) Promoting trade in services statistics also in
emerging and developing countries
2) Future compilation Guidance
3) Problems of data quality and historical
consistency across International Organisations
(IO)
4) Comparison of data collection
5) Main Objective: Review country comments
collected during second worldwide (WWC2)
consultation (29 Aug - 24 Nov 2008)
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1)Promoting trade in services
statistics.
• General: UNSD Task Force Website and Newsletter
• UNECLAC: Statistics in LAC according to BPM5, partner country
and FATS very limited or not available.
SEMINARS
• UNSD seminar for Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
countries providing training to both NSOs and CBs.
• Eurostat: workshops on implementation BPM6 and BD4 for EU-27
• World Tourism Organization: Laos mid-2009, CIS third quarter
2009
• WTO and WB: capacity building South Africa mid June 2009,
Zambia Nov 2009.
• UNSD seminar on TIS in Rio de Janeiro December 2009
• Possibility of yearly TFSITS seminar.
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2) Future Compilation Guide on
Trade in Services Statistics
• Agreement to develop Guide focusing on
Statistical issues (data collection, enterprise
surveys, administrative data sources).
• Should not duplicate BPM6 compilation guide (to
be started in 2010).
• Task Force (19-20 Nov) will discuss possible
experts.
• Modular approach – available on internet.
• Question on separate User Guide remains open.
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3) Problems of data quality and
historical consistency
• TF concerned about consistency of trade in
services data across IO databases.
• Include issues of breaks treated differently,
misallocations, countries using former version of
BPM, different sources serving different IO.
• Need to check consistency both between
national source and across IO .
• Further discussed TFSITS meeting in
November 2009.
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4) Comparison of international
data collection
• OECD proposal to design and agree on
common framework for IO’s was
welcomed by TF.
• OECD would nominate expert to elaborate
a stocktaking document, including the
issues of “vintages”, exchange rates used,
data providers.
• Explore the new technical possibilities
offered by SDMX.
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Review of country comments
• Following the WWC2 (29 Aug-24
November 2008), 100 replies collected (77
elaborated).
• Covered 5 chapters and 2 annexes.
• In general countries were supporting the
Manual
• Majority of questions (34) were related to
the revision of the Extended Balance of
Payments Services (EBOPS) classification
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Structure of MSITS 2010 1/2
 Summary (new draft) => All
 Chapter 1 => Introduction (UNSD)
 Chapter 2 => Conceptual framework (WTO)
 Chapter 3 => Services Transactions between
Residents and Non-residents (IMF)
 Chapter 4 => Foreign affiliates statistics and the
international supply of services (OECD)
 Chapter 5 => Trade in services statistics by
modes of supply (WTO)
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Structure of MSITS 2010 2/2
 Annex I (EBOPS 2010) => IMF/OECD
 Annex II (EBOPS 2010-CPC Rev.2) UNSD/IMF
and (EBOPS 2010-GNS/W/120) => WTO
 Annex III (ICFA-EBOPS 2010) => Eurostat/UNSD
 Annex IV (GATS extract) => unchanged
 Annex V (GNS/W/120 list) => unchanged
 Annex VI (TSA and IRTS) => UNWTO
 Annex VII (analytical Annex) => OECD, BEA, WTO and
WHO
 Glossary => UNCTAD
 Bibliography =>UNSD
 Acronym list => UNCTAD
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Review of WWC2 Chapter 1(UNSD)
• Availability of chapters in english had
restricted the number of country replies.
• Differences between MSITS 2002 and
MSITS 2010 should be elaborated and
complemented by a correspondence table
between EBOPS 2002 and 2010
highlighting main changes.
• Importance of new Chapter 5 and online
analytical annex should be underlined.
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Review of WWC2 Chapter 2 & 5
(WTO)
Chapter 2
• More on concordance tables and the importance of
linking trade and business registers.
• More information to be provided on merchanting and
goods for processing.
• Elaborate terminology on labour mobility and labourrelated flows.
• Reference to EU FATS manual to be added.
Chapter 5
• Explain that overlap may exist between BOP and FATS
frameworks in the Manual.
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Review of WWC2 Chapter 3 (IMF)
• Chapter 3 further aligned with BPM6 including
on terminology (“Standard” and “Supplementary”
items used analogous way).
• Need to better explain time-shares and call
centers.
• Add table linking EBOPS and complementary
groupings.
• Add table linking EBOPS 2002 and EBOPS
2010 (for needs of Chapter 1).
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Revised EBOPS 1/3
• New Breakdown of Direct Insurance (item
6.1) and of Architectural services (item
10.3.1) will be standard.
• Pensions separated from Standardized
Guarantee services in Insurance and
pension services (item 6)
• Breakdown of Government goods and
services n.i.e. reintroduced.
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Revised EBOPS 2/3
• Supplementary breakdown “heritage and
recreational services” (11.2.3) of other
personal, cultural, and recreational
services [UNESCO] .
• IMF to check OECD proposal on definition
of originals.
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Revised EBOPS 3/3
• Charges for the use of intellectual property
breakdown has been further discussed
after the Bangkok meeting.
• Breakdown of R&D services agreed. (see
p. 7)
• The TF decided not to give priority to any
breakdown in travel nor in transportation
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EBOPS complementary groupings
• Detail on licence to use added to Audiovisual
transactions and to Computer software
transactions (see p. 8)
• Distribution services to be presented together
with Merchanting and trade-related services in
Trade related transactions.
• Name “Environmental transactions” agreed
upon. Correspondence to CPC Rev. 2 noted.
• Cultural Transactions was added following the
provision of a definition of these by UNESCO.
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Review of WWC2: Chapter 4
(OECD)
• Remaining references to majority
ownership (ownership % of shares)
should be changed to the notion of
control which relates to more than 50%
ownership of voting power (at each stage
of chain of ownership).
• The table on ISIC categories for FATS
should (and has) be clarified.
• Text on Special Purpose Entities to be
removed since covered in BD4 and BPM617
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Review of WWC2: annexes
• Better edit references to EBOPS in annex 6 on
Tourism statistics.
• On analytical annex, need to review an example
on software and to establish a correspondence
table to ISIC in table on trade in services by
industry (Statistics Canada)
• No separate annex on cross-cutting issues
because of lack of time and the fact that both
BPM6 and IMTS Rev 3 are in their final form
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Review of WWC2 : annexes
• Correspondence tables to be updated and
provided on line (not in the paper
publication)
Annex II (EBOPS 2010-CPC Rev.2)
UNSD/IMF
and (EBOPS 2010-GNS/W/120) => /WTO
Annex III (ICFA-EBOPS 2010) =>
Eurostat/UNSD
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Next steps
• Consistency across chapters with respect
to changes was analysed by OECD/WTO
Expert consultant.
• TF (19-20 November) will review
remaining questions following the third
WWC.
• Five chapters of the Manual should be
submitted to UNSC end February 2009.
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Thanks for your attention!
TFSITS website:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/tradeserv/default.htm
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