Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services

processing services comprises:  
(a) Agricultural services that are incidental to 
agriculture, such as the provision of agricultural 
machinery with crew, harvesting, treatment of crops, 
pest control, animal boarding, animal care, and breeding 
services. Services in hunting, trapping, forestry and 
logging, and fishing are also included here. 
(b)  Mining services provided at oil and gas fields, 
including drilling, derrick building, repair and 
dismantling services, and oil and gas well casing 
cementing. Services incidental to mineral prospecting 
and exploration, as well as mining engineering and 
geological surveying, are also included here.  
(c)  Other on-site processing services, which covers 
on-site processing of or work on goods that have been 

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imported without change of ownership, processed but 
not re-exported to the country from which the goods 
were consigned (but are instead either sold in the 
processing economy or sold to a third economy) or vice 
versa. 
3.134.  Other business services 
covers services 
transactions between residents and non-residents, such 
as the placement of personnel, security and investigative 
services, translation and interpretation, photographic 
services, building cleaning, real estate services to 
businesses and any other business services that cannot 
be classified to any of the business services listed above. 
Included are the distribution services of electricity, 
water, gas and other petroleum products, where these are 
identifiable separately from transmission services 
(included in pipeline transport and electricity 
transmission). 
3.135.  Services between related enterprises, n.i.e., is a 
residual category. It covers payments between related 
enterprises for services that cannot be specifically 
classified to any other component of EBOPS. It includes 
payments from branches, subsidiaries and associates to 
their parent enterprise or other related enterprises that 
represent contributions to the general management costs 
of the branches, subsidiaries and associates (for 
planning, organizing and controlling) and also 
reimbursements of expenses settled directly by parent 
enterprises. Also included are transactions between 
parent enterprises and their branches, subsidiaries and 
associates to cover overhead expenses.