UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics

• 9:30 – 9:50: Opening remarks

  • Angela Paolini Ellard, Deputy Director-General, WTO
    • Opening remark
  • Stefan Schweinfest (Director, UNSD) -- video recording
    • Speech transcript

• 9:50 – 10:30: Follow up to the UNSC decision and introduction of the strategic framework (UNCEBTS Chair)

  • Note on the integration of business and trade statistics with other statistical domains and strategy direction of UNCEBTS - Stefano Menghinello, Istat and Cristina Neves, Statistics Portugal
    • Presentation
    • Strategic discussion paper

• 11:00 – 11:20: Trends in trade and emerging data needs

  • Trends in trade and emerging data needs - Coleman Nee and Victor Stolzenburg, WTO

• 11:20 – 12:30: Stocktaking of countries/international organizations experiences

  • Plans for European business and trade statistics - Petra Sneijers, Eurostat
  • OECD recent outputs and work programme - Annabelle Mourougane, OECD
  • Business and trade statistics at UNCTAD and their integration with other statistical domains - Onno Hoffmeister, UNCTAD
  • IMF work on business and trade statistics and their integration with other statistical domains - Patrick Quill, IMF
  • Barbara D'Andrea, WTO

• 14:00 – 15:30: Strengthening coordination with inter-agency working groups and groups from intergovernmental organization

  Round-table discussions:

  • UN Network of Economic Statisticians (Aishath Shahuda, Co-Chair of the United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians and Deputy Chief Statistician, Maldives Bureau of Statistics)
  • Inter-secretariat Working Group on National Accounts (Herman Smith, Chief, National Accounts Section, UNSD)
  • UN Committee of Experts on Big data and Data Science for Official Statistics (Luis Gerardo Gonzalez Morales, Chief, Data Innovation Section, UNSD)
  • Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (Cara Williams, Co-chair of IAEG-SDGs, Statistics Canada)
  • Geostatistical Integration in Business Register - Claudio Stenner, Co-chair of EG-ISGI, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
  • UN Committee on Environmental Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) - Ilaria Di Matteo, Chief, Environmental-Economic Accounting Section, UNSD
  • Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators - Reena Shah and Emil Ivanov, Environment Statistics Section, UNSD

• 15:45 – 17:00: Round table discussion and summary of the strategic discussion on business and trade statistics and way forward

• 9:30 – 10:50: Task Team on Statistical Business Registers

  • Progress report - Hank Hermans, CBS, TT-SBR leader
  • Implementing the classification update on the UK business register - Andrew Allen, ONS
  • CBS/UNSD/GLEIF/UNCITRAL
    • Global initiative on unique identifiers for business
    • Strategic Roadmap

• 11:10 – 12:30: Task Team on International Trade Statistics

  • Progress update - Cristina Neves, Statistics Portugal and Ouljour Houssaine, Office des Changes - Morocco, TT-ITS leaders
  • Experience from the African Trade Observatory project: Automatic collection and processing of transactional data: A pilot in Africa - Mathieu Loridan, ITC, ATO

• 14:00 – 15:15: Task Team on Business Dynamics, Business Demography and Entrepreneurship

  • Progress report - Gerardo Durand, INEGI, TT-BDBDE leader
  • Mainstreaming the gender dimension in OECD statistics: The OECD Gender Data Initiatives - Michela Gamba/Ashley Ward, OECD (remote presentation)
  • Producing new insights on entrepreneurship through data integration - Hui Min Cui, SingStat

• 15:30 – 16:30: Task Team on Digitalization

  • Progress report - Mark Uhrbach, StatCan, TT-G&D leader
  • Electronic commerce at the WTO - Stefania Gallo, WTO
  • Update on the Task Group on measuring e-commerce value - Si Yuan Tan, TG-eCom Chair (remote presentation)

• 16:30 – 17:00: Work programme on Wellbeing and Sustainability

  • Progress report - Stefano Menghinello, Istat
  • Environment and the WTO – how can statistics help? - Rainer Lanz, WTO

• 9:30 – 12:10: Handbook/Manual update

  • Possible development of the UN Manual on Business Statistics - Julian Chow, UNSD
    • Concept note
    • Presentation
  • Revision of IMTS and MSITS (ABS and WTO/OECD)
    • Towards the new IMTS - Amy Donnell, ABS, Chief editor
    • MSITS progress update - Barbara D'Andrea, WTO, Chief editor, on behalf of WTO and OECD
  • Integration of Business and Trade Statistics / Handbook on the Integration of Business and Trade Statistics
    • Progress update - Gerardo Durand, INEGI, Cristina Neves, Statistics Portugal, Chief editors
    • Integrating business and trade data to profile goods exporting firms - Hui Min Cui, SingStat
  • Manual on Principal Indicators for Business and Trade Statistics (Goods and Services) Volume 2 - Ouljour Houssaine, Office des Changes – Morocco, Ying Yan, WTO, Chief editors
  • Update on the BPM6 revision - Patrick Quill, IMF
  • Update on the SNA revision - Herman Smith, UNSD

• 12:10 – 12:30: Election of the Chair

  • Overview of the election process (UNSD as UNCEBTS Secretariat)
  • End-of-term remarks from Outgoing Chair (Stefano Menghinello, Istat)

• 14:00 – 15:00: Regional/national methodological/capacity development work on business and trade statistics (UNSD)

  • WTO - Barbara D'Andrea
  • IMF – Patrick Quill
  • UNCTAD – Onno Hoffmeister
  • UNECE – Carsten Boldsen
  • Update of recent workshops on SBR capacity building - Julian Chow, UNSD

• 15:00 – 15:30: Conclusion and way forward (UNCEBTS Chair)

Expert Group Meeting of the Task Team on International Trade Statistics

The extended meeting of the Task Team on International Trade Statistics of the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics will take place on 27 September 2024 focusing on the drafting of the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services (MSITS).

• 9:30 – 12:30: Morning Session

  • Welcome, follow-up matters, and updates
    • Opening remarks
    • Adoption of the Agenda
    • Follow up matters
    • (Cristina Neves, Statistics Portugal, TT Co-leads and Barbara D'Andrea, WTO, Antonella Liberatore, OECD, Chief editors)
  • Progress update on drafting of Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services
    • (Barbara D'Andrea, WTO, Antonella Liberatore, OECD, Chief editors)
  • Chapter 2. Conceptual framework
    • (Alexis Grimm, BEA)
  • Chapter 3. Transaction between residents and non-residents
    • (Andrea Carboni, Bank of Italy, Diana Wyman, Statistics Canada)
  • Chapter 4. Services supply through commercial presence
    • (Cristina Neves, Statistics Portugal, George Papadopoulos, Eurostat)

• 14:00 – 16:00: Afternoon Session

  • Chapter 5. Towards a holistic measure of trade in services
    • (George Papadopoulos, Eurostat, Ilda Duarte Fernandes Meyer, Deutsche Bundesbank)
  • Chapter 6. Quantitative indicators on the international supply of services
    • (Annette Meinusch and Ilda Duarte Fernandes Meyer, Deutsche Bundesbank)
  • Chapter 7. Data quality and dissemination
    • (Habib Khan and Jiayue Zeng, UNSD)
  • EBOPS. Extended Balance of Payments Services Classification 2026
    • (Markie Muryawan, UNSD, Ying Yan, WTO)
  • Conclusion and way forward
    • (Cristina Neves, Statistics Portugal, TT Co-leads and Barbara D'Andrea, WTO, Antonella Liberatore, OECD, Chief editors)