Regional-Global TiVA Initiatives Workshop

Recent years have seen a significant take-up in international efforts to develop measures of Trade in Value Added, driven by growing demands for better, more comprehensive and more timely data on global value chains, their drivers and impacts. Examples of initiatives include OECD-WTO TiVA, Eurostat’s FIGARO, North American TiVA, APEC TIVA, WIOD, regional IO tables for Latin America coordinated by CEPAL, and many others.

Bringing together all these TiVA initiatives, the second Regional-Global TiVA Workshop that took place on 7-8 June in Paris aimed to further develop and operationalise common tools and methods to construct inter-country Supply-and-Use and Input-Output tables, in order to ensure the objective – widely shared and supported by all initiatives – of a maximum consistency of statistics by the different initiatives, in particular for countries involved in/covered by multiple tables, building on the conclusions of the March 2017 meeting.