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| Contributor | William Cave, OECD |
| Title of paper | Measuring International Trade in Services and New Demands on the Family of Classifications |
| Abstract | The new Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services has broadened the statistical view of trade in services from a subset of the balance of payments to reflect the modes by which services are supplied in practice. This and associated development work has highlighted the need for adequate classifications of services in balance of payments, products and activities as well as for stronger links between them. As service provision frequently requires physical proximity between supplier and consumer, both establishment of foreign affiliates as service providers and the (temporary) movement of people as service providers or employees have become trade issues. In order to get a more complete picture of trade in services, analysts are seeking links between balance of payments trade in services, foreign affiliates trade in services, FDI, total domestic output by activity and product and export/import data sets and their respective classifications. Developing appropriate statistics on the trade related movement of people, as service suppliers or employees of service suppliers, will almost certainly involve a new use for classifications of occupation, levels of education and types of migrants. In particular the paper advocates that EBOPS links to CPC and ISIC should be strengthened, but warns that a complete product basis for EBOPS may be counter productive. A high priority for trade analysts is the successful outcome of convergence exercises regarding ISIC and regional/national industry classifications. A common aggregation for i) environmental services and ii) professional and technical services in EBOPS, CPC and ISIC(2 digit level) is proposed. The commodity software should be more clearly recognised in trade and product classifications. The software component of royalties and license fees should be separately identified in EBOPS and CPC as a priority. |
| Full document | Measuring International Trade in Services and New Demands on the Family of Classifications |
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