The Committee requested that part o

The Committee requested that part of the analysis in this report focus on industries particularlyinvolved in digital trade. Just as there is no standard definition for digital trade, there is nostandard way to classify the industries that are especially engaged in it. Digital products are notseparately categorized by type, as physical goods are.24 A recent report by the Organisation forEconomic Co-operation and Development (OECD) highlighted some of the challenges ofidentifying digital industry categories. Most available industrial classification systems are toobroad to identify relevant digital trade-related activities, and even when such categories can beidentified, the corresponding datasets often are not available.25 However, Digital Trade 1described several possible ways to measure the degree to which firms in a given industrycategory have adopted Internet technologies in their businesses—their “digital intensity.”26Some of the more useful indicators of digital intensity cited in that report were the proportionof online sales (e-commerce) to total sales; the share of total input purchases that areinformation technology (IT)-related; the proportion of employees in IT digital occupations; andthe share of total IT spending directed to cloud services.27