Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services

Type of employer 
Example 1: Foreign specialized technicians and highly qualified professionals may work under a temporary contract 
with legal entities, whether of national or foreign capital, established in country A.
Example 2: The natural persons are engaged in the supply of a service on a temporary basis as employees of a juridical 
person, who has no commercial presence in country A.
Categories of occupations 
Examples:
 
• 
Legal services supplied by a lawyer or attorney; 
• 
Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services supplied by an accountant; 
• 
Auditor; 

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• 
Medical doctors and dentists; 
• 
Fashion models and speciality occupations; 
• 
Taxation services supplied by a tax accountant;
• 
Foreign legal consultant; 
• 
Urban planner; 
• 
Senior computer specialist;
• 
Computer scientists; 
• 
Systems analysts;
• 
Programmers;
• 
Software document analysts; 
• 
Field engineers; 
• 
Travel tour managers. 
Number of permits, annual
Example: Up to 65,000 persons annually on a worldwide basis in occupations consisting of (a) fashion models who 
are of distinguished merit and ability; and (b) persons engaged in a speciality occupation, requiring (i) theoretical and 
practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge, and (ii) attainment of a bachelor’s or higher degree in 
the speciality (or its equivalent) as a minimum for entry into the occupation in country A. Entry for persons named in 
this section is 
limited to three years. 

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Annex II. 
Extended Balance of Payments Services Classification 
The present annex sets out the components of EBOPS and relates these to the components of BPM5 and the Joint 
Classification of the OECD and Eurostat. For each component: 
• 
An X in the first column indicates that the component is a BPM5 standard component; 
• 
An X in the second column indicates that the component is a BPM5 supplementary item; 
• 
An X in the third column indicates that the component is a BPM5 memorandum item; 
• 
An X in the fourth column indicates that the component is a component of the Joint Classification; 
• 
The three digit number in the fifth column identifies the internationally accepted code for reporting balance of 
payments components. 

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