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OECD-Eurostat Meeting of Experts in Trade in Services Statistics (TIS), Paris, 13 (p.m.)-15 September 2005

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Venue: 13 (p.m.)-15 September 2005, OECD, Paris La Defense 2, Tour Europe, Salle des Nations
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Including a Joint Session with the 6th OECD International Trade Statistics (ITS) Expert Meeting.

Agenda (29 September 2005)

Tuesday, 13th September 2005, 2:30 p.m.: Joint session ITS-TIS Experts

10. Opening of the common session regarding measuring merchandise trade and trade in services

Welcome and opening by the Chief Statistician of OECD and Director of the Statistics Directorate

11.	International trade and globalisation indicators
	a) Economic globalisation indicators - OECD/STI
	b) International trade indicators: a Web-based tool for researchers - OECD/STD Room Document 13 (pdf) - PowerPoint presentation
	Progress report Presentation of the Web-based beta version Links to other data sources
	c) New analytical products of the International Trade Centre (ITC) and co-operation with OECD, UNSD and WTO - ITC, PowerPoint presentation d) Intra-industry trade and the scale effects of economic integration - Finland, PowerPoint presentation
12.	SNA/BPM5 revision: unresolved balance of payments issues concerning trade in goods and services statistics
	a) Goods for processing, STD/NAES/TASS/ITS(2005)18 - STD/NAES/TASS/ITS(2005)19 - Room document 7 (pdf) - PowerPoint presentation
	Position paper by the Merchandise Trade Task Force - WTO Issue paper by the IMF - UNSD - SNA Editor Outcome of SNA AEG
	b) Merchanting IMF issue paper and progress report from IMF merchanting working group - for discussion,STD/NAES/TASS/ITS(2005)20 (pdf) - PowerPoint presentation

Cocktail, 6.00 p.m.

Wednesday, 14th September 2005: Joint session ITS-TIS - continued, 9.30 a.m.

13.	a) Foreign Affiliates Trade in Services Statistics, Room document 2 (pdf)
	Metadata - OECD report - PowerPoint presentation Recommendations Manual for the EU Foreign Affiliates Regulation - Eurostat report - PowerPoint presentation National developments: - FATS Statistics: Producing Statistics for Broadly Defined Trade in Services - Bank of Japan - PowerPoint presentation - Foreign Affiliates Trade Statistics - Australian Bureau of Statistics, STD/NAES/TASS/SERV(2005)10 (pdf)
	b) OECD balance of payments data OECD quality review report on OECD balance of payments data for information, Room Document 1 (pdf) - PowerPoint presentation

Lunch break

Wednesday 14th September 2005, 2:30 p.m: OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting on Trade-in-services Statistics

14.	Opening
	a) Report of 2004 Trade-in-services Meeting, STD/NAES/TASS/SERV(2005)M1 (PDF) b) Interagency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services Report for information, STD/NAES/TASS/SERV(2005)1 (PDF) c) Eurostat activities in trade in services and related balance of payments areas for information - PowerPoint presentation d) UNSD activities in statistics of international trade in services, Room document 4 (PDF)
15.	BPM5 Revision continued - for discussion
	a) Classification of services in the balance of payments - OECD/IMF, STD/NAES/TASS/SERV(2005)2 - STD/NAES/TASS/SERV(2005)9 - Room document 8 (PDF) - PowerPoint presentation b) Revision of CPC and links to EBOPS - UNSD/OECD, Room document 5 (PDF) c) Report of Financial Services Task Force - OECD, STD/NAES/TASS/SERV(2005)3 (PDF) d) Update on Canberra II work on non-financial assets
16.	Data quality
	a) Trade in services Methodological Soundness Questionnaire- OECD-Eurostat Progress report for discussion - PowerPoint presentation b) OECD paper on implementing MSITS and data quality, STD/NAES/TASS/SERV(2005)5 (PDF) - PowerPoint presentation c) User view of trade in services data - France, STD/NAES/TASS/SERV(2005)6 Rev1 (PDF) - PowerPoint presentation d) Developments in trade in services statistics - Canada Room Document 12 (PDF)

Thursday, 15 September 2005, 9:30 a.m.

17.

Analytical issues

i) Measuring offshoring of services

a) Progress in accounting for data discrepancies between US and India - US BEA
b) Measuring offshoring Room Document 14 (PDF)

OECD work - OECD/DSTI,
Country presentation:
Offshore outsourcing of the production - The problem of "fabless enterprises", CBS Israel, STD/NAES/TASS/SERV(2005)8/REV (PDF) - PowerPoint presentation

ii) South-south trade in services project
OECD/ECH report - PowerPoint presentation

18. Updating the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services - Scope, overview and timetable, STD/NAES/TASS/SERV(2005)7 (PDF) - PowerPoint presentation

Lunch break

19.	TSA and Remittances
	a) Revising the Tourism Satellite Account - Note by World Tourism Organisation/IMF, Room document 3 (PDF) b) Proposed changes to remittances measurement - Report by UNSD/IMF - PowerPoint presentation
20.	Data collection and dissemination
	a) Metadata, data production and publication - presentation by Eurostat - PowerPoint presentation b) Publication of Trade in Services Statistics -Progress reports - UN-OECD-Eurostat - PowerPoint presentation