Chair:

Deputy Director General, National Development Office
National Economic and Development Authority

Co-Chairs:

Director, Department of Economic Statistics
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Director, Industry and Trade Statistics Department
National Statistics Office

Members:

Director, National Planning and Policy Staff
National Economic and Development Authority

Deputy Executive Director, Export Development Council
Department of Trade and Industry

Deputy Commissioner, Assessment and Operations Coordination Group
Bureau of Customs

Director
Philippine Economic Zone Authority

Director, Bureau of Export Trade Promotion
Department of Trade and Industry

Director, Trade, Industry and Utilities Staff
National Economic and Development Authority

Director, Economic Statistics Office
National Statistical Coordination Board

Representative from the Private Sector

1. To serve as a forum for the discussion of the issues raised by the stakeholders regarding the official statistics on trade of goods and services;
2. To conduct an in-depth review of all issues relating to Philippine trade statistics, including foreign and domestic trade on goods and services;
3. To conduct an in-depth assessment of available data on export of IT services and analyze possible improvements in data reporting, collection and consolidation;
4. To review the concepts, techniques, and methodologies used in the collection, processing and reporting of trade statistics to ensure conformity with prescribed statistical standards;
5. To recommend policies geared towards improved generation of trade statistics on goods and services;
6. To conduct an in- depth review of export statistics and valuation practices of exporting companies and identify issues resulting there from:
7. To conduct an in-depth review of consigned imports; and
8. To present the results and recommendations to the NSCB Executive Board for appropriate action.

1. Recommendations on the generation of a new series of the revised/rebased foreign trade index
2. Recommendations on the improved import/export data particularly in the valuation of electronics imports and coverage of NSO data
3. Inputs to the 2011-2016 PSDP Chapter on Trade Statistics
4. Recommendations on the institutionalization plan on the generation of data on trade in services

• Memorandum Order No. 01-04
  Creation Of An Inter-Agency Committee On Trade Statistics
• Memorandum Order No. 02-06
  Reconstituting The Inter-Agency Committee On Trade Statistics