meeting the wto agenda for statistics on trade in services executive summary is becoming increasingly important to many countries following publication by un of manual international considerable progress has been made developing expanding and harmonising data collection systems key elements fulfiling s requirements have included oecd publish 11 categories listed extended balance payments ebops classification much which was already being collected number publishing internally generated partner country increased from 8 2000 26 2003 half these include a breakdown with at least 40 eurostat publishes standardised further 10 covering 16 coverage covers 92 world through use mirror smaller 20 fats mode 3 commercial presence although variable nearly all indicators employment turnover value added inward only
