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ESA/STAT/AC.124/8 9 April 2007 UNITED NATIONS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS STATISTICS DIVISION Meeting of the Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications New York, 16-18 April 2007 Future revision of the Classification by Broad Economic Categories (BEC) UNSD Future revision of the Classification by Broad Economic Categories (BEC) Proposal by UNSD This is a proposal to put a new work programme regarding BEC on the agenda of the Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications. The proposal is (1) that BEC should be reviewed to ensure that its current structure relating to transportable 1 goods is still appropriate, (2) that the draft correlation table between the BEC categories and subheadings of Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, 2007 edition, should be reviewed, and (3) that a possible extension of the BEC to services products should be considered as well as the development of a link between the BEC and the Central Product Classification (CPC). Background information The BEC was initially developed by UNSD for internal purposes to reclassify merchandise imports (reported in terms of SITC) into the product categories relevant to the SNA. With time, many countries started to use BEC for a variety of purposes including economic analysis and setting tariffs. UNSD has created correspondence tables between BEC and each new revision of SITC and the Harmonized System. Since the CPC is based on HS