WTO International Trade

Statistics 2008Chapter III “International Trade in Services by category”

- Highlights

- Estimates of exports/imports by sector for the world and by selected region

- Leading/major exporters and importers by sector and selected subsectors

- Data on bilateral trade in services by sector and selected subsectors

- Trade in commercial services- FATS inward and outward salesChapter I

Annex tables

“Other business services” (BOP)  Table III.33 World exports of other business services by region   Table III. 34 Major exporters and importers of other business services

Table III. 35 Exports of other business services of selected economies by destination  

Table III.36 Trade in other business services by category in selected economies  

Example

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1980-2008

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By country, region, economic group, world

Total commercial services

•Transportation services

•Travel

•Other commercial services

English only

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1) Partial TIS data coverage

- No bilateral trade flows

- No breakdown of “other commercial services”

Scope for improvement!

2) No built-in options for data manipulation

LIMITS of the WTO Online SDB