Economic research and trade policy analysis
Agradecimientos
Queremos dar las gracias a todas las instituciones que han suministrado datos, incluidas las notificaciones que figuran en el tema especial, sobre todo a las administraciones nacionales o las delegaciones ante la OMC que han facilitado toda esta información. En algunos casos, los datos se han facilitado en sitios web nacionales o a través de organizaciones regionales. Dada la enorme cantidad de datos y metadatos estadísticos que ha sido necesario procesar, y debido a que esa información no se encuentra en una única organización, la presente publicación solo ha sido posible como esfuerzo conjunto de la OMC, el ITC y la UNCTAD. Cada una de estas tres organizaciones posee una reconocida experiencia en actividades de análisis arancelario y una destacada pericia en la materia.
Digitally ordered trade
This Handbook defines digitally ordered trade as the “international sale or purchase of a good or service, conducted over computer networks by methods specifically designed for the purpose of receiving or placing orders”. This chapter describes how existing enterprise and household surveys targeting e-commerce provide a basis for measuring digitally ordered trade. It highlights the significant challenges that survey respondents, in particular households, can face when identifying and reporting international transactions, especially when these pass through digital intermediation platforms.
Introduction
Why is it important to measure digital trade? This chapter outlines the multifaceted impact of digitalization on international trade and examines which policy areas require consistent, comprehensive and feasible measurement approaches.
Digital intermediation platforms (DIPs)
This Handbook includes this separate chapter on digital intermediation platforms (DIPs) because of their importance in facilitating digital trade, the scope they offer for targeted measurement, and their particular compilation challenges. This chapter describes the accounting principles for recording transactions facilitated by DIPs and provides examples of existing initiatives, surveys and big data sources used to measure DIP transactions.

