Recent developments in OECD countries

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Recent developments in OECD countries
ORGANISATION DE COOPÉRATION ET DE DEVELOPMENT
ÉCONOMIQUES
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND
DEVELOPMENT
Country reports received from member countries
STATISTICS DIRECTORATE INTERNATIONAL TRADE
STRUCTURAL BUSINESS STATISTICS
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Introduction
OECD has issued a short development framework
questionnaire to countries asking for the
approximate delivery of merchandise trade data in
2006 for reference year 2005 and developments
during the past 12-18 months
Response rate was high with 23 countries
reporting - Thank you!

• The answers obtained allow to distil some common
  patterns with regard to
• The possibilities of 2006 data deliveries
  (optimized calendar)
• Some key developments which could give rise to
• Promoting joint research projects amongst
  countries and with OECD
• Explore new promising fields of investigation

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Approximate date for 2006 annual detailed data
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Annual detailed data in 2006

• With the exception of 3 countries, provisional
  data could be supplied by February/March
• All countries could at least supply provisional
  data by end June
• With only 2 exceptions, final data could be made
  available by September

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Approximate date for 2006 monthly data
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Monthly data in 2006

• Total Values should become available before 5o
  days for all but 6 countries
• Totals by partner and by SITC Section should be
  available after 10 weeks
• No uniform pattern for Volume and value indices
  ranges from 4 weeks to over 90 days (incl. 90
  days after last quarter)

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Developments during the past 12 to 18 months
Three questions were asked, namely
a) Operational/managerial improvements having
led to improved timeliness and/or improved
quality/coverage
b) Particular research work (e.g.
reconciliation exercises, methodological
research). Main objective(s) and outcomes
c) Studies/research with respect to the use and
possible linking of registers (interoperability
of registers)
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Country developments

• Full responses are given in paper
  STD/NAES/TASS/ITS(2005)4
• Virtually all reported managerial and
  organisational improvements
• Many countries report bilateral reconciliation
  exercises with (most often neighbouring)
  countries
• FTS ltgt BOP

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Country developments (contd)

• Impact of the Rotterdam Effect on asymmetries
  (UK and Germany)
• VAT fraud (UK)
• Micro data exchange Belgium and the Netherlands
• Switzerland Finding the balance between EU and
  UN trade concepts and definitions
• Canada Importer register for the 1st time and
  reconciliation exercise with China

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Country developments

• Turkey plans to publish trade statistics
  according to both the general and special trade
  system
• Australia data confrontation with tourism
  satellite accounts
• Austria Foreign trade macro indicators
• Sweden Organisational change to produce more
  coherent economic statistics
• United States Automated Export System, unique
  exporter ID, Work started on Importer Database

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Country developments

• A very significant number of countries reported
  register linking exercises
• which will be dealt with in more detail under
  agenda item 8
• Countries include Australia, Austria, Belgium,
  Germany, Finland, United Kingdom. Hungary,
  Poland, Turkey