9.30-10:30

Opening Session
 
Opening statement

Mr. Alejandro Jara, Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization
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Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development of the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs
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Keynote Speech

Mr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
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Panel Discussion

• Moderator Mr. Walter Radermacher Director General, EUROSTAT, European Commission

• Panelists:
  Mr. Enrico Giovannini,Chief Statistician, Italy
    
  Mr. Aaron Sydor, Deputy Chief Economist, Canada
    
  Prof. Gary Gereffi, Professor of Sociology, Duke University
  
  Mr. Hubert Escaith Chief Statistician, World Trade Organization
    
  Mr. Henri Laurencin, Chief of Globalisation and Development Statistics Branch, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
    
  Mr. Ronald Jansen, Chief of Trade Statistics Branch, United Nations Statistics Division/ DESA
  

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• > Relevant background documents
• > Abstracts of Presentations & Biographies of Presenters
    

14.30-15:45

4.   Implementation of the new international recommendations (Agenda items 4 a, b and c)

a.   New recommendations of international merchandise trade statistics (IMTS 2010) and the compilation guidance
Mr. Matthias Reister, Chief of International Merchandise Trade Statistics Section, United Nations Statistics Division/ DESA

b.   New recommendations of statistics of international trade in service (MSITS 2010) and the compilation guidance
Mrs. Bettina Wistrom, International Trade in Goods and Services, Trade and Business Statistics (TBS) Division, Statistics Directorate, OECD

c.   The latest EU Regulations on Trade Statistics and their relations to the international recommendations
Ms. Valdone Kasperiuniene, Head of International Trade Statistics Section, Statistical Office of the European Union, EUROSTAT
  

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d.   Country perspective on adjusting to the new recommendations (Agenda item 4d)
  
Presenters:
Mr. Leif Korbel, Head of International Trade Statistics Division, Statistics Norway
  

Ms. Anita Bany, Director of the Foreign Trade Statistics Department, Hungarian Central Statistical Office
  
Mr. Zainuddin Bin Ahmad, Director of the External Trade Statistics Division, Department of Statistics, Malaysia

Mr. Zainol Jamil, Principal Assistant Director, Balance of Payments Statistics Division, Department of Statistics, Malaysia
  
Ms. Yijin Zhang, Statistics Division, Department of Trade in Services, Ministry of Commerce, China
  

General Discussion on implementation of the new recommendations
  

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• Relevant background documents
  • > The Statistical Measurement of Services (OECD — Feb 2005)
    
• > Abstracts of Presentations & Biographies of Presenters

5. Compilation of international merchandise trade statistics: Future of customs recording and seizing the potential of non-customs administrative sources and enterprise surveys (Agenda item 5a)

Presenters:
Ms. Sandra Tudor, Head of External Trade Statistics Division, HM Revenue & Customs, United Kingdom
  
Mr. Roland Boudreau, Director, International Trade Statistics Division, Statistics Canada
  
Mr. Houssaine Ouljour, Head of Methodologies and Statistical Surveys unit, Foreign Exchange Office, Morocco
  
Ms. Estela de Guzman, Director of Trade and Industry Statistics Department, Philippine National Statistics Office
  

General Discussion on IMTS data sources
  

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11.00-12:10

b.  Compilation of statistics of international trade in services: Future of ITRS and enterprise surveys (Agenda item 5b)
 
Presenters:
Mr. Jose Antonio Isanta, Head of International Trade in Services, Business Statistics Directorate, National Institute of Statistics, Spain
  
Ms. Thi Quynh Loi Pham, Senior Statistician of Trade and Services Statistics Department, General Statistics Office, Viet Nam
  
Ms. Ka-lin Karen Chan, Assistant Commissioner for Census and Statistics, Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
  

General Discussion on SITS data sources
  

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• > Abstracts of Presentations & Biographies of Presenters
  

Opening remarks

Mr. Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization
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14.45-16:00

Global Manufacturing and the Global Value Chain approach
Dr. Timothy Sturgeon, Affiliated Researcher, Industrial Performance Centre, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

International Sourcing of Business Functions
Mr Peter Boegh Nielsen, Head of the Division for Structural Business Statistics, Statistics on Globalisation, Information Society, R&D and Innovation, Statistics Denmark

Goods for processing: Iceland experience
Ms. Audur Svavarsdottir, Head of External Trade unit, Statistics Iceland
  
Goods for processing: China experience
Ms. Jin Hongman, Chief of Statistics Division, Statistics Department, General Customs Administration, China

The Handbook on the Impact of Globalisation on National Accounts
Ms. Tihomira Dimova, Senior Statistician, Economic Statistics Section, UNECE
  

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General Discussion on Global Manufacturing, MNEs and Foreign Affiliates
  

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• > Relevant background documents
• > Abstracts of Presentations & Biographies of Presenters

Towards an integrated approach of trade in goods and services and business statistics (Agenda item 7)
  
Presenters:
Mr. Stefano Menghinello, Head of Foreign trade and MNEs statistics Division, Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)
  
Mr. Paulo Roberto Pavão, General Coordinator of Statistics Production, Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Brazil
  
Dr. Patricia Walter, Senior Expert, External Statistics and Financial Accounts Division, Austrian Central Bank
  
Mrs. Sonia Araujo, Economist, Trade and Business Statistics Division, Statistics Directorate, OECD
  
Ms. Maria Helena Figueira, Director of Business Statistics, Statistical Office of the European Union, EUROSTAT 
  

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12.15-12:30

Towards an integrated approach of trade in goods and services and business statistics: the Way Forward (Agenda item 9)
  
Presenter:
Mr. Ronald Jansen, Chief of Trade Statistics Branch, United Nations Statistics Division/ DESA
  

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• > Relevant background documents
• > Abstracts of Presentations & Biographies of Presenters

 14.30-16:30

Trade in Value-Added: Input-Output Approach and the domestic content of Exports. (Agenda item 10)
  
Presenters:
Mr. Andreas Maurer, Chief International Trade Statistics Section, World Trade Organization
  
Mr. Robert Stehrer, Senior Researcher, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria
  
Mr. Sebastien Miroudot, Economist, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD
  
Mr. William Powers, Economist, Office of Operations, US International Trade Commission
  
Mr. Bo Meng, visiting research fellow at the OECD on secondment from the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO)

Concluding remarks and closing of the Global Forum
  

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• Relevant background documents
  • > World Input — Output Database Conference on Industry-Level Analyses of Globalization and its Consequences — Speech by Alejandro Jara (WTO - May 2010)
  • > USA — ITC — Small and medium sized enterprises (Nov 2010)
    
• > Abstracts of Presentations & Biographies of Presenters