Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics

Beijing , China , 24 – 26 October 2011

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics of China, organized a Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics. The Seminar aims to enhance the capacity of National Statistical Offices of Asian countries to produce reliable and high quality trade statistics.

The seminar took place from 24 to 26 October 2011 in Beijing, China.

The Seminar was conducted as part of the project on strengthening statistical capacity in China and other developing countries in Asia funded by the Chinese Government.

Documents for the meeting

• Provisional agenda
• Practical information
• List of participants
• Report of the workshop
• Background documents
  • Meeting documents
  • Background reading

Monday, 24 October 2011
08:00 - 09:00		Registration for participants:
09:00 - 12:30	Opening session
	1.	Opening of the meeting
	2.	Opening statement by Paul Cheung, Director (UNSD)
	3.	Adoption of provisional agenda and administrative matters ( UNSD )
	4.	Purpose and context of the seminar: the Global Forum and the relevance of trade statistics (UNSD)
	Coffee and Tea Break
	5.	Trade patterns and global value chains in East Asia
		a. Trade Patterns, Production networks, and Trade and employment in the Asia-US region by Satoshi Inomata, IDE-Jetro, Japan
		b. Rise of global value chains and trade in value-added by Bo Meng, IDE-Jetro, Japan
14:00 - 17:00	International recommendations
	6.	The recommendations for international merchandise trade statistics: IMTS 2010 and its implementation by Vladimir Markhonko , UN consultant
	Coffee and Tea Break
	7.	The recommendations for statistics of international trade in services: MSITS 2010 and its implementation by Karoly Kovacs, UNSD
	8.	Trade in Services, Mode 4: Movement of Natural Persons by Ronald Jansen, UNSD, on behalf of WTO
Tuesday 25 October 2011
9:00 - 12:30	Globalization issues
	9.	Manufacturing services on inputs owned by others
		a. China’s Practice in Statistics of Goods for Processing by Jin Hongman, General Customs Administration, China
		b. Development of Trade in Goods and Services Statistics in Hong Kong by Karen Chan Ka-lin, Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong SAR , China
		c. Migration from BPM5 to BPM6 and the issue of Manufacturing services on inputs owned by others by Yusnita Mohd Yusof, Department of Statistics, Malaysia
	Coffee and Tea Break
	Multi-national enterprises, foreign affiliates statistics and intra-firm trade
	10	a. Multi-National Enterprises and Foreign Affiliates in Thailand by Angsupalee Wacharakiat, Data Management Department, Bank of Thailand
		b. Trade in Services, Multi-National Enterprises, FATS and FDI in India - Additional materials by Sumit Roy, Reserve Bank of India
		c. International Sourcing - Moving Business Functions abroad by Ronald Jansen, UNSD, on behalf of Statistics Denmark
14:00 - 17:00	Trade Statistics and Enterprise Survey frames
	11.	Economic Census - Experience of Indonesia by Titi Kanti Lestari, Statistics Indonesia
	12.	Establishment Census in Vietnam - Note by Xuan Mai, General Statistical Office, Vietnam
	Coffee and Tea Break
	13.	Linking Customs data and Establishment surveys - the experience of the Philippines by the National Statistical Office, Philippines
	14.	Linking businesses to Trade in Services Statistics - the experience in Austria by Ronald Jansen, UNSD, on behalf of the Austrian National Bank
Wednesday 26 October 2011
9:00 - 12:30	Towards an integrated approach of trade in goods and services
	15.	Institutional arrangements - What do we need to integrate? by Vladimir Markhonko, UN consultant
	16.	Institutional arrangements to integrate trade in goods and services by Amitava Saha, Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics, India
	Coffee and Tea Break
	17.	Dissemination of international trade statistics: the integrated approach by Toh Shi Ling, Department of Statistics Singapore
	18.	Dissemination of international trade statistics: the integrated approach by Karoly Kovacs, UNSD
14:00 - 15:45	Linking trade with other economic and social statistics
	19.	Linking trade to input-output tables
		a. Cross-regional spillover of economic growth in China by Bo Meng, IDE-Jetro, Japan
		b. Vertical specialization analysis of China’s Supply chains by Satoshi Inomata, IDE-Jetro, Japan
	20.	Linking trade to production statistics
		Use of trade data in the analysis of world steel demand and supply, and the indirect trade in steel project by Adam Szewczyk, World Steel Association
	Coffee and Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00	Conclusion of the Regional Seminar