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International Trade in Services
Franca Faes-Cannito
European Commission
Eurostat,
Balance of Payments Unit

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International trade in services
Framework: Balance of Payments
Due to their intangible nature, trade in services is
subject to more constraints than trade in goods
Services are the fastest growing part of
international trade
International Standards – IMF BPM5 (BMP6); MSITS;
The classification of services and related
nomenclature are set in BPM5 and EBOPS

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Role of Eurostat
All MSs send to Eurostat data specified by BoP
Regulation
Eurostat monitors methodological practices in the
MS
Eurostat harmonises data received from the MS
Major attention is paid to quality of data
Eurostat calculates EU and Euro area aggregates
Eurostat disseminates data via its database
Eurostat publishes on-line and paper publications

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Institutional framework
Regulation on Community statistics concerning
balance of payments, international trade in
services and foreign direct investment.
MS are legally obliged to send the required data in
accordance with the details and deadlines stated
in the regulation.
Balance of Payments Committee: composed of all
MSs and chaired by Eurostat. Responsible for
comitology issues
Balance of Payments Working Group: platform for
technical discussions

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Area of activities
 Quarterly Balance of Payments,
 International Trade in Services,
 Foreign Direct Investment,
 Foreign Affiliates Statistics,
 BoP of the European Institutions.

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International trade in services
Flows: imports, exports and balance.
Reporters: EU, Member States, Euro area, CCs, Norway,
USA and Japan.
Item classification: common Eurostat/OECD classification
(EBOPS) – about 85 service categories
Geographical partners: about 200 countries, economic
and geographic zones
Availability: Eurostat database - since 1985
Structural Indicators: Trade integration of services

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11 main groups
code definition
200SERVICES
205 Transport
236 Travel
245 Communications services
249 Construction services
253 Insurance services
260 Financial services
262 Computer and information services
266 Royalties and licence fees
268 Other business services
287 Personal, cultural and recreational services
291 Government services, n.i.e

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EBOPS-Transport
205 Transportation
206 Sea transport
207 Passenger transport on sea
208 Freight transport on sea
209 Supporting, auxiliary and other sea transport services
210 Air transport
211 Passenger transport by air
212 Freight transport by air
213 Supporting, auxiliary and other air transport services
214 Other transport
218 Space transport
219 Rail transport
223 Road transport
227 Inland waterway transport
231 Pipeline transport
232 Other supporting and auxiliary transport services

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EBOPS-Travel
236 Travel
237 Business travel
238 Expenditure by seasonal and border workers
239 Other business travel
240 Personal travel
241 Health-related expenditure
242 Education related expenditure
243 Other personal travel

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EBOPS - other services
245 Communications services
246 Postal and courier services
247 Telecommunication services
249 Construction services
250 Construction abroad
251 Construction in the compiling economy
253 Insurance services
260 Financial services
262 Computer and information services
263 Computer services
264 Information services
266 Royalties and license fees

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EBOPS-other services (cont.)
268 Other business services
269 Merchanting and other trade-related services
270 Merchanting
271 Other trade related services
272 Operational leasing services
273 Miscellaneous business, professional and technical services
274 Legal, accounting, management and public relations services
278 Advertising, market research and public opinion polling
279 Research and development services
280 Architectural, engineering and other technical consultancy
281 Agricultural, mining , and on-site processing
284 Other miscellaneous business, professional and technical services
285 Services between affiliated enterprises, n.i.e.
287 Personal, cultural and recreational services
288 Audio-visual and related services
289 Other personal, cultural and recreational services
291 Government services, n.i.e.

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Geographical breakdown
Level 1:
•World, CH, CA, US, JP, BR, RU, CN, HK, IN, EU,
Extra-EU, Extra-Euro area, EUI, Offshore centres
Level 2:
•60 countries and 15 regions, 30 economic zones
Level 3:
•More than 200 countries and regions

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ITS - timeline
Annual ITS (illustrated by 2007 as reference year)
•MS sent all required data by 30 Sept. 2008
•Data treatment Oct.-Nov. 2008
•Dissemination (incl. aggregates)27 Nov. 2008
•Dissemination of non-EU countries Dec. 2008
Preliminary data for 2008 (based on quarterly data)
•Data for IV quarter received 31 March 2009
•Data for IV quarter published 22 April 2009
•Preliminary 2008 annual data released 29 April 2009

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EUROSTAT WEBSITE

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ITS - Publication
 Press release
•27.11.2008 (ITS 2007)
•22.04.2009 (Preliminary 2008)
 Statistics in Focus
•International trade in services
•Trade in Services with South Korea
•Travel 2007
•Current account preliminary results (to be released)
 Detailed Tables
•EU International trade in services – analytical aspects

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EU Total services with the rest of the world (in bn €)
*2008: provisional data
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EU trade with its main partners, total services (in mil. €)
Rank*Trading partner Credit Debit Net Credit Debit Net
1Switzerland 53252 3814615107 61503 4398717516
2United States of America1337531220291172413913512771711417
3Russia 14699 10986 3713 19238 12030 7208
4Norway 16275 10677 5599 19008 11912 7096
5Japan 18607 13193 5413 19378 13805 5573
6Australia 9180 6028 3151 10747 6284 4463
7Singapore 10426 6034 4392 11397 7133 4264
8China 13346 11890 1456 17766 13769 3996
9South Korea 6759 3973 2786 7212 3961 3251
10India 7259 5769 1490 9555 7020 2535
11Nigeria 4912 1560 3352 3874 1708 2166
12Canada 10397 8467 1930 11695 9648 2047
13Brazil 5259 4650 609 6417 4791 1626
14Venezuela 1541 762 779 2102 719 1383
15Chile 2331 1169 1162 2712 1373 1339
16South Africa 5558 4386 1173 5704 4380 1324
17Mexico 4190 2622 1568 4535 3303 1232
18Taiwan 3390 2021 1369 3722 2550 1172
29Morocco 1819 3613 -1794 2104 4407-2303
30Croatia 2253 4799 -2546 2333 4931-2598
31Thailand 2029 4623 -2594 2151 4926-2776
32Egypt 2405 5093 -2688 2610 5700-3091
33Turkey 5945 10805 -4860 6617 11900 -5282
* ordered according to EU net in 2007
2006 2007

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11 main groups: EU international trade in services
with the rest of the world in 2008* (in bn €)
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