1. Informal Cross Border Trade Statistics
Myanmar
Informal Cross Border Trade Statistics
Fourth Project Support Meeting
Bangkok, Thailand | November 2017

2. Outline of Presentation
Motivation
Achieve
Faced Issues
Intend to Overcome
Plan to Progress
Learnt from the Project
Affect RPES
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. Plan to Progress
If we can get Technical and Financial Assistance for this area, we will be warmly welcome and thanks for cooperation.
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7. Lesson Learnt
No experiences for Informal Cross Border Trade Survey, To Study the experiences from Other Countries
To take good practise from other country
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8. Affect RPES the lessons affect future project implementation
country perspective or recommendations for the RPES project
To consider other countries similar projects
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9. Impact on RPES To increase Official Trade Statistics among Regional
To upgrade Tax Legislation
To reduce Trade Deficit
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10. Thank You
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