ORGANISATION DE COOPÉRATION ET DE DEVELOPMENT ÉCONOMIQUES
OECD
OCDE
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Recent developments in OECD
countries
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
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The possibilities of 2006 data deliveries (optimized calendar)
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Some key developments which could give rise to
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Promoting joint research projects amongst countries and with OECD
Explore new promising fields of investigation
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Countries
Approximate date for 2006
annual detailed data
Month in 2006
Jan
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Switzerland
Czech Republic
Germany
Denmark
EC
Spain
Finland
France
United Kingdom
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Iceland
Italy
Japan
Korea
Luxembourg
Mexico
Netherlands
Norway
New Zealand
Poland
Portugal
Slovak Republic
Sweden
Turkey
United States
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Feb
Mar
Apr
May
P
Jun
Jul
P
F
F
P
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
F
F
F
P
P
P
P
P
F
F
F
P
P
F
F
F
P
F
P
P
F
F
P
P
F
F
F
P
F
F
P
P
F
P&F F
P
P
F
F
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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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Countries
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Switzerland
Czech Republic
Germany
Denmark
EC
Spain
Finland
France
United Kingdom
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Iceland
Italy
Japan
Korea
Luxembourg
Mexico
Netherlands
Norway
New Zealand
Poland
Portugal
Slovak Republic
Sweden
Turkey
United States
Approximate
date40for 2006
monthly
data80
70
60
50
30
20
10
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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 <=> BOP
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Country developments
(cont’d)
 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…
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