Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics

Amman, Jordan, 12-14 June 2012

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in collaboration with the Department of Statistics of Jordan, the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS) and the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), are jointly organizing a Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics.

The seminar took place from 12 to 14 June 2012 in Amman, Jordan.

The main sessions of the Seminar

• Opening session
• Compilation of resident/non-resident transactions in services
• Trade and Globalization
• Linking trade with other economic and social statistic
• Towards an integrated approach of trade in goods and service

Documents for the meeting

• Provisional agenda (English, Arabic)
• Practical information
• List of participants
• Report of the workshop
• Background documents
  • Meeting documents
  • Background reading

Tuesday, 12 June 2012
08:00 - 09:00	Registration for participants:
09:00 - 12:30	Opening session
	1.	Opening of the meeting
	2.	Opening statement
	3.	Adoption of provisional agenda and administrative matters
	4.	Status of statistics of international trade in services in the ESCWA region: lessons learned, ESCWA work on trade statistics and overview of the results of the MSITS questionnaire
	5.	Purpose and context of the seminar: Trade and globalization
	6.	Main recommendations for international merchandise trade statistics: IMTS 2010 and its implementation
	7.	The recommendations for statistics of international trade in services: MSITS 2010 and the Compilers Guide for MSITS 2010
14:00 - 16:30	Compilation of resident/non-resident transactions in services
	8.	Travel services and Tourism statistics
	9.	Transport services
	10.	Group discussion on Travel and Transport services
Wednesday 13 June 2012
8:30 - 12:30	Trade and Globalization
	11.	FATS, FDI and Multi-nationals -International recommendations and country experiences
	12.	Group discussion on FATS, FDI and data of Multi-nationals
	13.	Other commercial services
	14.	Manufacturing services on inputs owned by others
	15.	International sourcing of Business Functions
	16.	General discussion on Trade and Globalization
14:00 - 16:30	Linking trade with other economic and social statistics
	17.	Guidelines for Statistical Business Registers
	18	Trade in goods and service by Enterprise Characteristics, TEC and STEC
	19.	Linking Trade with Economic and Social Statistics
	20.	Group discussion on linking Trade with other statistics
	21.	Measuring Trade in Value-added
	22.	Group discussion on Trade in Value-added
Thursday 14 June 2012
8:30 - 12:30	Towards an integrated approach of trade in goods and services
	23.	Institutional arrangements for trade in goods and services
	24.	The integrated dissemination of international trade statistics
	25.	Discussion on integration of the collection, compilation and dissemination of trade in goods and services
	Round table discussion on the future developments of international trade statistics
	Conclusions and recommendations of the Regional Seminar