partner country. For transactions between residents
and non-residents, the aim would be to report partner
country detail at the level of services trade as a whole
and for each of the main types of services in BPM5.
In the case of FATS and FDI, it would be to report
partner country detail both in the aggregate and for
the major industry categories within ICFA. In both
cases, it is recommended that countries give a higher
priority to providing data with respect to their most
important trading partners. To the extent possible,
7
See paras. 3.52-3.143 below and annex II.
8
See para. 4.9 and box 7.
9
See paras. 4.46-4.66 below and table 3.
countries should use a common geographical basis for
all three sets of statistics.
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