Informal Cross Border Trade Statistics Myanmar Informal Cross Border Trade Statistics Fourth Project Support Meeting Bangkok, Thailand | 13-15 November 2017
Outline of Presentation Motivation Achieve Faced Issues Intend to Overcome Plan to Progress Learnt from the Project Affect RPES 12/9/2018
Motivation and Achieve To establish the volume and value of informal (unrecorded) trade between Myanmar and her neighbors To apply the SNA System (the result of production method counter check by expenditure method) Trade statistics to apply the calculation of GDP Illegal Trade and its impact on national economy To develop a standard procedure that can be applied to prepare annual measure of missed export and import To analysis mirror import data To promote analytical skill and produce reports 12/9/2018
Motivation and Achieve To reduce the illegal trade Estimating volumes and values of informal trade Highly effected on National Revenue To estimate for inclusion in the balance of payments and National Accounts statistics compilation Impact on the Accuracy of Official Statistics 12/9/2018
Issues and Overcome No adjustment is made for under-reporting or smuggling (illegal trade) Cannot track Informal Trade Data To overcome the faced issues by gaining Technical and Financial Assistance from Development Partners To get the methodology for the Process relating with Informal Cross Border Trade Survey 12/9/2018
Plan to Progress If we can get Technical and Financial Assistance for this area, we will be warmly welcome and thanks for cooperation. 12/9/2018
Lesson Learnt No experiences for Informal Cross Border Trade Survey, To Study the experiences from Other Countries To take good practise from other country 12/9/2018
Affect RPES the lessons affect future project implementation country perspective or recommendations for the RPES project To consider other countries similar projects 12/9/2018
Impact on RPES To increase Official Trade Statistics among Regional To upgrade Tax Legislation To reduce Trade Deficit 12/9/2018
Thank You 12/9/2018