Meeting of the Working Party on International Trade in Goods and Trade in Services Statistics (WPTGS), Paris, 16-18 November 2009

1.

Welcome, adoption of the Agenda, and opening

Welcome and opening by the acting Chief Statistician of OECD

2.

New developments at OECD

Considerable work has been carried out by OECD and the accession countries to OECD to gauge the degree of suitability and conformity with international standards of these countries with repect to statistics.

For information

1)

Integrating the OECD Accession countries into OECDs Statistical databases

1) Overall coordination of statistical activities (OECD)

Oral presentation, Tim Davis, Accession coordinator STD

2) Summary update of TAGS databases (OECD)

Oral presentation, Andreas Lindner, STD

3.

Inter-Agency Co-operation and coordination in trade statistics

The revision process of the manual MSITS 2010 and the 3rd revision of concepts and definitions for merchandise trade, IMTS Rev.3, have been completed and both frameworks will be submitted to the UNSC in February 2010 for endorsement. This agenda item updates delegates on main findings and changes. Delegates are invited to express their opinion.

For information and discussion

1)

Inter-Agency Merchandise Trade Statistics Task Force  TFIMTS report (WTO)

Andreas Maurer, WTO

2)

Inter-Agency Task Force on Statistics in Trade in Services TFSITS report (OECD)

Bettina Wistrom, OECD

3)

Report of the Joint  Session TFIMTS and TFSITS (WTO and OECD)

Andreas Lindner, OECD

STD/SES/WPTGS(2009)2

4)

IMTS !rev.3 and MSITS 2010: which issues will need to be addressed for compilers? (International Organisations and country delegates)

1) IMTS Concepts and Definition, Revision 3: summary of worldwide consultation and implications for the future (UNSD)

2) MSITS 2010: summary of world-wide consultation and implications for the future (UNSD/OECD)

3) Open discussion

Country delegates are invited to express their views on the two summaries provided and flag their opinion from a data producer perspective.

5)

International Organisations’ co-operation and its impact on data consistency in dissemination: where should users look for what? (OECD)

Given the wealth of information disseminated by international Organisations on trade and trade-related indicators, users may be confused where to look for which data. This presentation intends to shed some light on the specific advantages or drawbacks of what IOs present.

Oral presentation, Andreas Lindner, STD

4.

Improving the data quality of merchandise trade statistics

Delegates are invited to comment on the four presentations.

For discussion

1)

ITCS: allocating data from HS 6 digit to HS 2 digit (OECD)

Eric Gonnard/Blandine Serve, STD

2)

Eurostat report on data quality (Eurostat) (postponed to WPTGS 2010)

3)

Re-Exports and re-imports in UN COMTRADE (CEPII)

Alix de Saint-Vaulry

4)

Promoting the use of SDMX (OECD)

Marc Pollard, ONS, UK, OECD Consultant

Oral presentation, Trevor Fletcher, OECD, STD

5.

Linking trade with enterprise characteristics statistics (TEC)

This agenda item 5 shocases very significant and promising developments in OECD countries and others. OECD continues to strongly promote this "linkage exercise", which it began several years ago. Embedded in a OECD Steering Group, Eurostat covers the EU countries, while OECD covers the other OECD countries. Countries which do not yet participate are invited to flag their interest to join. This invitation extends also to OECD accession countries and Enhanced Engagement Countries.

For discussion

1)

Policy applications of linked trade data (Canada)

Philip Armstrong, Statistics Canada

2)

Linking business statistics to trade (Italy)

Carmela Pascussi, ISTAT

3)

Regional services exports and business registers (United Kingdom)

Keith Brook, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK

4)

High-tech trade by enterprise characteristics (EU/JRC)

Alexander Loschky, EC/JRC

5)

Trade in services - new evidence on linkages to business statistics and multinationals (Austria)

Patricia Walter, Austrian National Bank OENB

STD/SES/WPTGS(2009)5

6)

Trade in services between enterprises of the same group (Brazil)

Fernando Augusto Ferreira Lemos, Brazil

6.

Trade in services

For discussion

1)

Software (OECD)

Mark Pollard, ONS, OECD Consultant

2)

Remittances (OECD)

Fabiana Cerasa, STD

3)

SISCOSERV and NBS - The Brazilian Effort in Measuring its Foreign Trade in Services (Brazil)

Jane Alcanfor de Pinho, Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Brazil

International transactions of services and origin of merchandise exports (Argentina)

Sergio N. Ayala, INDEC, Argentina

5)

The Intrastat Services initiative (Italy)

Paola Anitori, ISTAT, Italy

STD/SES/WPTGS(2009)8

7.

Implementing IMTS Rev.3, MSITS2010, 2008 SNA, BPM6, EBOPS

This agenda item is intended to allow for an open roundtable discussion on both the key issues and the process of implementing the various new frameworks. Particular attention should be paid to how to concretely facilitate and - if possible - co-ordinate implementation in countries with the help of the International Organisations involved.

For discussion

Discussion on which cross-cutting issues need to be addressed and list of priorities

Discussion on the process of compilation guidance

18h-20h : Cocktail offered by OECD

8.

Trade and the crisis

Statistics and the crisis, broad implications - presentation of an issue paper presented to CSTAT - for information

Marco Mira d'Ercole, Counsellor, STD

For discussion

1)

The Great Synchronization: What do high-frequency statistics tell us about the trade collapse? (OECD)

Oral presentation, Sonia Araujo, STD

2)

Impact of the financial crisis in Canada and the aftermath in the Canadian BOP Statistics (Canada)

Craig Kuntz, Statistics Canada

STD/SES/WPTGS(2009)4

3)

Technology exports and imports of Japanese enterprises and the impact of the financial crisis (Japan)

Toshie Kori, Bank of Japan

Future Infrastructures: Recent developments and outlook for traffic flows and capacities (OECD/SGE/AU)

Oral presentation, Barrie Stevens, Advisory Unit to the Secretary General OECD

9.

Trade & Globalisation

For discussion

1)

The forthcoming Economic Globalisation Indicators 2009 and related work (OECD STI, DAF and STD)

Oral presentations

2)

MEETS, the Modernisation of European Enterprise and Trade statistics (Eurostat)

Axel Behrens, Michaela Grell, Eurostat

3)

Effects of globalisation on Singapore’s  trade (Singapore)

Meng Chung Lee, International Enterprise, Singapore

4)

Trade, processing and value added chains

1) Trade in intermediate goods (OECD/TAD)

Sebastien Miroudot, Rainer Lanz, TAD

2) Vertical trade and global value chain (OECD)

Sonia Araujo, STD

STD/SES/WPTGS(2009)16

3) Goods for processing, intra-firm and value added value added chain (WTO)

Andreas Maurer, WTO

4) OECD Input-Output tables and relted analytical work (OECD/STI)

Colin Webb, Norihiko Yamano, STI

5)

World Input-Output Database (WIOD) (OECD/University of Groningen)

Robert Stehrer, WIIW, Austria

FDI, external financing and globalisation - a supplemental presentation

Simon Arieli, CBS, Israel

Simon Arieli, CBS, Israel

10.

Draft conclusion of the 2nd WPTGS meeting and future work programme, date of next meeting

11.

Closing