For female workers who suffered occupational injuries diseases, again agriculture dominated with 71.2 followed by the manufacturing 14.7 , community, social and personal services (9.1 ) and wholesale retail trade (3.1 ).

It was agreed that the scope of distributive trade statistics should include wholesale trade, retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.

Many basic industries and foreign trade, as well as domestic wholesale trade, had been nationalized before the communists took power.

The most significant sources of employment in 2008 were manufacturing industry, wholesale and retail trade and construction.

Pakistan, where distribution (both wholesale and retail) is the single largest complement of the services sector, is an interesting example.

International trade in services

Special attention was given to the need to develop a set of recommendations regarding the compilation of indices of distributive trade, such as the index of retail trade and the index of wholesale trade.

The behaviour of distribution services reflects the evolution of GDP however, different behaviour was observed in the case of wholesale and franchising.

Division of Trade Support Services

Trade in services and development

Wholesale and retail petrol

However, issues relevant to wholesale and retail trade were considered in the context of the Commission's work on service statistics and economic classifications.

E commerce is most prominent in manufacturing shipments, followed by wholesale trade (accounting for 21.1 and 13.1 per cent of total sales, respectively).

The contribution of distribution services (comprising wholesale, retail, hotels and restaurants) to GDP ranged from 12 to 16 per cent over the period 1995 2004.

Trends in the services trade balance varied.

Free trade in consultancy and technology related services

Mr. Julian Arkell, International Trade and Services Policy

Mr. Hamid Mamdouh, Director, Trade in Services, WTO

Item 5 Trade in services and development implications

The situation is similar in trade in services.

As far as industries are concerned, one quarter of all Internet sales took place in the wholesale trade sector, followed by transportation and warehousing (17 per cent).

Instead, under the new Plan, China will adopt a more labor intensive services model. It will, one hopes, provide a detailed blueprint for the development of large scale transactions intensive industries such as wholesale and retail trade, domestic transport and supply chain logistics, health care, and leisure and hospitality.

Half of world trade in commercial services consists of business services, which includes professional services such as accounting, legal, health and advertising services.

Perez, National Directorate of Services for External Trade, Panama

Assessment of trade in services in the GATS negotiations

(d) Importation wholesale and retail businesses (foreign country).

International trade involves goods, services, transport operations, vehicles and infrastructure.

In 2003, LDCs accounted for 0.4 per cent of world trade in services, mostly transport and travel services.

Although overall global trade declined by 12 that year, trade in creative goods and services continued to expand.

Evidence shows that growth in ICT goods and services trade has been higher than growth in total trade.

Besides mining (21.8 of GDP) and agriculture (16 of GDP), dominant industries in the composition of GDP are wholesale and retail trade and service, transportation and storage, and real estate activities.

Retail trade and wholesale began to operate in the regulatory environment a number of essential laws did not exist, and those that did were not adequate for the new market conditions.

Services account for just 43 of Chinese GDP well below global norms. Services are an important piece of China s pro consumption strategy especially large scale transactions based industries such as distribution (wholesale and retail), domestic transportation, supply chain logistics, and hospitality and leisure.

Economy The economy of the town depends on agriculture, trade, services.

Nonetheless, figures confirm the increasing significance of South South services trade.

Services infrastructure for development, trade efficiency and human resources development 400,900

But none of these economies had pursued wholesale economic liberalization.

They should not be transported wholesale to other national settings.

Trade in these services could offer important opportunities for developing countries given their comparative advantage in labour intensive services.

Given the role of services in development, technology transfer and trade, a balanced outcome in services negotiations is imperative.

Private capital flows have exploded since, dwarfing trade in goods and services.

Those executives have global experience in trade in transnational goods and services.

Subprogramme 4 Services infrastructure for development, trade efficiency and human resources development

Developing countries generally remained net importers of commercial services in 2003, and their services trade has been below global averages.

The services sector had been addressed under WTO auspices in 1995 in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).