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Regional Workshop on International Trade Statistics
Organized by UNSD in cooperation with UNESCAP, UNDP Turkmenistan and ECO
Hosted by the State Statistical Committee of Turkmenistan

  • Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
  • 26 – 29 September 2016

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) is organizing a Regional Workshop on International Trade Statistics in cooperation with the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), UNESCAP and UNDP Turkmenistan and will be hosted by the State Statistical Committee of Turkmenistan, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 26 to 29 September, 2016.

The objective of the workshop is to improve the understanding of international recommendations on international merchandise trade statistics and on international trade in services statistics, to share hands-on experiences in data acquisition, data compilation strategies (including data standardization and checking), data quality framework and data analysis and dissemination among trade statistics compilers. Furthermore, the discussion will be touching upon the improvement of data access and flow within national statistical systems with better coordination and cooperation among data providers and compilers. The ultimate goal is to produce the highest quality of international trade in goods and services statistics, which are relevant for the policy makers at home and which are also comparable at the regional and international levels.

The seminar would be attended by official statisticians from national statistical offices, central banks and customs offices. One of the goals of seminar is to bring the communities of statisticians closer together both nationally and internationally.

Day 1: Monday, 26 September 2016

08:00 - 09:00
Registration for participants
09:00 - 12:30
Opening Session
  1. Opening Remarks:
    1. SCS Turkmenistan
    2. UNDP
    3. UNSD
  2. Adoption of provisional agenda and administrative matters
  3. Purpose and context of the seminar
  4. Overview of the recommendations for international trade statistics:
    1. International Merchandise Trade Statistics, Concepts and Definitions 2010 (UNSD)
    2. Implementation of MSITS 2010 (UNSD)
    3. Guidelines for Statistical Business Registers
  • Discussion
14:00 - 17:00
International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS)
  1. Scope, Time of Recording, Trade System, and Customs Procedure Codes (UNSD)
  2. Bilateral trade asymmetries in Merchandise Trade (UNSD)
  3. Country presentation: Country practice in compilation of International trade in goods and services (India)
  4. Bridge table between IMTS 2010 and BPM6 Trade in Goods (UNSD)
  5. Country presentation: China customs statistics (China)
  • Discussion

Day 2: Tuesday, 27 September 2016

9:00 - 12:30
International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS)
  1. Commodity classification and quantity information (UNSD)
  2. Country presentation: Practice in formulating foreign trade statistics and bilateral trade statistics in Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)
  3. General items of quality and quality report (UNSD)
  4. Challenging compilation issues (UNSD)Country presentation: China customs statistics (China)
  • Discussion
14:00 - 17:00
Field Trip

Day 3: Wednesday, 28 September 2016

09:00 - 12:30
Data collection for trade in services statistics; compilation practices on selected services categories
  1. EBOPS 2010 Overview of the service categories (UNSD)
  2. Selected EBOPS categories: Manufacturing services (UNSD)
  3. Selected EBOPS categories: Construction and Transport (UNSD)
  • Discussion
14:00 - 17:00
Compilation practices on selected services categories
  1. Country presentation: Statistics of International Relations in Tajikistan (Tajikistan)
  2. Tourism and travel services (UNSD)
  3. Country presentation: Statistics of International trade in goods in Turkmenistan (Turkmenistan)
  4. General frameworks on conceptual, legal and institutional (UNSD)
  5. China’s international trade statistical system (China)
  • Discussion

Day 4: Thursday, 29 September 2016

09:00 - 11:00
Data collection, FATS, and Linking trade and business statistics
  1. Introduction to Eurotrace (UNSD)
  2. Country presentation: International and bilateral merchandize trade statistics in Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyztan)
  3. Introduction to Foreign Direct Investment – Foreign Affiliates Statistics (FDI/FATS) (UNSD)
  4. Country presentation: Collection, Compilation of FDI & FATS (India)
  5. Country presentation: Statistics of International Merchandize Trade in Uzbekistan (Uzbekistan)
  • Discussion
11:30 - 12:30
Dissemination of international trade statistics
  1. Dissemination and visualization of international trade statistics including meta-data (goods and services) (UNSD)
  2. Global assessment of linking trade and business statistics – result of global assessment 2015 (UNSD)
14:00 - 15:30
Roundtable discussion: implementation of IMTS 2010 and MSITS 2010 in the region
15:30
Recommendations and Conclusion of the Regional Workshop

Documents

Venue

Archabil Hotel
54 Archabil Shayoly str.,
Ashgabat 744000, Turkmenistan

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