Publications & Documents

Margin Benchmark for civil aircraft, historical data (XLSX)

ASU historical Margin Benchmark for civil aircraft.

Quarterly Update of Market Reflective Surcharge (MRS) and Resulting Minimum Premium Rates (MPR) [2011 ASU]

Market Reflective Surcharge (MRS) and resulting Minimum Premium Rates (MPRs) have been updated. These updated MPRs replace Table 5 of Appendix II of the Aircraft Sector Understanding (2011 ASU) and are applicable as of 15 April 2018.

Growth in a Multilateral World: The Role of Inclusive Trade and Quality Investment

Despite these glimmerings of hope, the multilateral system is under strain and governments around the world are facing a public backlash against globalisation, open markets and trade. This is partly due to a lack of trust in the international system and partly because the benefits of globalisation have not been evenly distributed across all peoples and regions.

Aircraft Sector Understanding : Cape Town Convention (CTC) Contracting Parties Qualifying for a CTC Discount

The list of states qualifying for the Cape Town Convention discount, as agreed to date by the Participants to the ASU.

Environment and Regional Trade Agreements

The OECD is investigating the trends of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) and their effects on the environment since 2005. Recent work focuses on how governments actually implement these environmental commitments and whether they have had an impact on environmental endpoints and on how to incorporate environmental objectives across these agreements for better policy coherence.

Statistical Insights: New OECD-WTO data provides coherent and comprehensive view of Global Trade in Services

Although services account for a growing share of international trade, in-depth (policy) analyses of global trade in services are often hampered by incomplete and asymmetric bilateral statistics. To mitigate these problems, the OECD and WTO, in collaboration with national statistical offices and central banks, have built a coherent and comprehensive global dataset of bilateral trade in services flows.

Trade in Counterfeit Goods and Free Trade Zones - Evidence from Recent Trends

Free trade zones are being used to traffic counterfeit goods

Rapid growth in free trade zones – where economic activity is driven by reduced taxes and customs controls, light regulation and limited oversight – is unintentionally fostering growth in counterfeit goods trafficking, according to a new report by the OECD and the EU’s Intellectual Property Office.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: March 2018

OECD unemployment rate stable at 5.5% in January 2018

Countering Illicit Trade

Illicit trade has a negative impact on economic stability, social welfare, public health, public safety & our environment. To mitigate this global risk, public and private sector decision makers need a firmer understanding of the magnitude and nature of its impacts on economic activities, and a clearer understanding of the conditions that enable it.