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MSITS Chapter V Trade in Services Statistics
by Mode of Supply
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GATS

• Trade in Services Statistics by Mode of Supply
• BOP/trade negotiators -- tourism example
• GATS MoS/Understanding mode 4
• value of trade/additional analytical needs
  (number of persons)
• Simplified allocation to modes of supply
• Tourism and migration statistics

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GATS
Compilers of Statistics BOP/FATS
Trade Negotiators

• Trade in services statistics
• By service sectors
• By partner
• By modes of supply

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GATS
An example Tourism sector
4 modes of supplying services
Negotiating list GNS/W/120 Hotels and
restaurants Travel agencies and tour operator
services Tourist guide services Other services
Mode 2?BOP Travel
Foreign tourist guides (mode 4)
Affiliates of hotelchains (mode 3)
Foreign managers/ intra-corporate transferees
(mode 4)
Sales of tourism operators (mode 1)
but
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Understanding Mode 4
MODE 4
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GATS
Develop practices to separately identify modes in
EBOPS

• Information needs for assessing trade in services
  by modes of supply
• Value of services exports or imports
• More specific variables (market access), e.g FDI
  or number of persons moving (flow) or present
  (stock)

• Simplified approach
• either dominant mode ? e.g. telecommunications
  (mode 1)
• or no dominant mode ? e.g. computer consultant
  (mode 1 and 4)
• waste-treatment (mode 2 and 4)
• construction (mode 3 and 4)
• ? Most significant mode of supply

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Options to assess Mode 4 delivery in surveys
1.Did the service delivery involve physical
presence of service provider?
Yes? Then, how was most of the service value
delivered (time/resources)?
Mostly by fax, email, etc. Natural person at the
end (e.g. to supervise)
The persons knowledge was essential to deliver
the service
2. Require in specific surveys allocation by
each GATS mode of supply
3. Require estimated share of inputs for the
service trade related to mode 4
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GATS
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GATS
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Mode 4, migration and tourism statistics
Categories of the UN Recommendations on
Statistics of International Migration, revision
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Migrant categories
Non-migrant categories