The United Nations Statistics Division invites international, supranational and regional organizations as well as the United Nations Regional Commissions attending the 41st session of the Commission to a consultation on international trade statistics. The main purpose of the consultation is to exchange views on several issues relevant to this topic as well as on future activities.

Please find enclosed the report of the meeting: Report (March 2010)

Organizer: United Nations Statistics Division

Seminar Programme/Agenda
1.	Follow up activities on conclusions of the previous meeting
		a. UNSD introduction b. Open discussion
2.	Implementation of IMTS2010 and MSITS2010: how can organizations help countries to cope with the new challenges?
		a. UNSD, IMF, OECD, WCO b. Open discussion
3.	Forward looking activities (research agenda, databases, knowledge base)
		a. UNSD, WTO b. Open discussion
Contributions and further background documents
	• Presentations by UNSD on agenda items: 1, 2, and 3,
	• Presentation by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
	• Paper by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
	• Note by the World Trade Organization (WTO)
	• Note by the World Customs Organization (WCO)
	• Note by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
	• Report of the Secretary-General on international merchandise trade statistics (E/CN.3/2010/5) Additional languages: [A], [C], [F], [R], [S]
	• International merchandise trade statistics: Concepts and Definitions 2010 (IMTS 2010)
	• Report of the Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services (E/CN.3/2010/6) Additional languages: [A], [C], [F], [R], [S]
	• Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services 2010 (MSITS 2010)
	• Report of the previous meeting (February 2009)