Date: June 15 - 17 Location: Durban, South Africa Summary: The Workshop was organized by WBI, in cooperation with the Republic of South Africa's Department of Trade & Industry (SADTI) and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), as part of WBI's FY08-10 global capacity building and DECRG's research program in services trade, which are supported by a number of donors, including the UK, Sweden, Norway, and Austria. Purpose: The aim of this learning event was to help improve the quality and coverage of services trade statistics so that they can better serve the needs of trade policy makers and negotiators, including those negotiating or considering South-South bilateral free trade agreements.The event covered how to improve statistics under GATS/MSITS (and its current revision) and BPM5 (and its forthcoming revision BPM6) to meet the needs of policymakers/negotiators in: (i) cross-border trade,
(ii) consumption abroad,
(iii) FATS; and
(iv) temporary movement of service providers.
Target Audience: Senior civil servants from central banks, statistical agencies, and trade ministries in a dozen emerging economies, who are responsible for producing services trade statistics or for formulating policies on negotiating positions for trade agreements. Follow-up: See links to national websites directly or indirectly related to services trade Agenda: | Day 1 - June 15 | | 8:30 - 9:00  | Welcome and Introductions | | 9:00 - 10:30 | Services Trade and Data Needs Services Trade Reform, International Negotiations and Data Needs - Aaditya Mattoo, World Bank | | 10:00 - 12:30 | Statistical Conceptual Framework - All Modes Measuring International Trade in Services - Conceptual Framework - Joscelyn Magdaleine, WTO | | 14:00 - 14:30 | Overview of Currently Available Statistics Global and Country Services Trade: Evidence from the WTO - Joscelyn Magdaleine, WTO Global and Country Services Trade: Evidence from the WTI 2008 and Overview of Participating Countries’ Data and Systems - Gianni Zanini, WBI | | 14:30 - 15:50 | Cross-Border Trade: OECD Systems, Data Sources & Statistical Methods - Part 1 BPM5/BPM6 and the Australian Experience - Karen McGuigan, ASB US Experience - Jennifer Koncz, USBEA | | 16:20 - 18:00 | Cross-Border Trade: Systems, Data Sources & Statistical Methods - Part 2 The Chilean Experience in the Context of its Accession to the OECD - Juan Eduardo Chackiel, Chile The South African Experience regarding Tourism/Travel Statistics Trade in Services Exports: The Indian Perspective |
  | Day 2 - June 16 | | 9:00 - 11:00 | Commercial Presence: Systems, Data Sources and Statistical Methods I FATS and the US Experience (+FDI) - Jennifer Koncz, USBEA FDI and the Australian experience (+FATS) - Karen McGuigan, ASB | | 11:30 - 12:30 | Systems Commercial Presence: Systems, Data Sources and Statistical Methods II Brazilian Experience on the Development of an Electronic System of Foreign Trade in Services Survey of International Trade in Services: Malaysian Experience | | 14:00 - 15:30 | Data sources and Statistical Methods for Mode 4 and Services-Related Labor Mobility Overview of Challenges for Measuring Mode 4 - Joscelyn Magdaleine, WTO Measuring Services-related Labor Mobility, including from migration and remittances data - Jennifer Koncz, USBEA and Karen McGuigan, ASB The Philippines’ Experience | | 16:00 - 17:00 | Surveys and Data Dissemination Survey processing, universe estimate from sample, electronic surveys and dissemination - Jennifer Koncz, USBEA and Karen McGuigan, ASB | | 17:00 - 18:00 | Wrap-up/Conclusions Panel of resource persons - Gianni Zanini to chair, with World Bank, WTO, US BEA, ABS, Chilean Central Bank |
| Day 3 - June 17 Closed Discussion Consultations between International Experts and South African Reserve Bank, Statistics South Africa, and The DTI (ITED) on South Africa’s Current Practices, Goals, and Action Plan for Improving Services Trade Statistics Quality and Coverage | | 9:00 - 10:30 | Looking into available SA Statistics: SARB 1. A word from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) 2. Current SARB Services Classifications 3. Current Collection Methods | | 11:00 - 12:30 | Classification Integration 4. Integrating to the New WTO Classifications and Questionnaire Reviews |
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