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How can organizations help countries to cope with the new challenges?

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Inter-agency consultation on International Trade Statistics New York, 24 February 2010

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Forw ard looking Forw ard looking activities: activities:

• UN Comtrade upgrade

UN Comtrade upgrade

• Trade Statistics

Trade Statistics know ledgebase know ledgebase

• Research agenda

Research agenda

Brief introduction by Matthias Reister

Chief, International Merchandise Trade Statistics Section Trade Statistics Branch, United Nations Statistics Division E-mail: reister@un.org

How can organizations help countries to cope with the new challenges?

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Inter-agency consultation on International Trade Statistics New York, 24 February 2010

• 1. UN Comtrade upgrade:
• New data items:

– Second partner country – Second value for imports (FOB in addition to CIF) – Mode of transport

• Possible additional identification OR metadata on

– goods for processing – intra-firm trade

• UN Comtrade data request will set a new reporting

standard and a standard for data dissemination

⇐ Data presentation will be discussed with EG-IMTS and TF-IMTS

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Inter-agency consultation on International Trade Statistics New York, 24 February 2010

• 2. Trade Statistics Knowledgebase
• Easy access support for compilers

– International recommendations – Compilation guidance (best practices) – Reference materials (classifications, conversion tables etc.) – National practices / national metadata

• Metadata on national and international level for data

users

• Access to all UNSD outputs and activities on

merchandise trade

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Inter-agency consultation on International Trade Statistics New York, 24 February 2010

• 3. Research agenda (in collaboration with others)
• Asymmetries in trade data
• Linking trade and business statistics
• Trade indices
• Automated data transfer
• Other issues (trade by value added, environmental

concerns, developing use of quantity information etc.)

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Inter-agency consultation on International Trade Statistics New York, 24 February 2010

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