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Since 1998, the staff of the International Monetary Fund has published a classification of countries' de facto exchange rate arrangements. Experience in operating this classification system has highlighted a need for changes. The present paper provides information on revisions to the system in early 2009. The changes are expected to allow for greater consistency and objectivity of classifications across countries, expedite the classification process, conserve resources, and improve transparency.

Finance --- Business & Economics --- International Finance --- Foreign exchange rates. --- Monetary policy. --- Monetary management --- Exchange rates --- Fixed exchange rates --- Flexible exchange rates --- Floating exchange rates --- Fluctuating exchange rates --- Foreign exchange --- Rates of exchange --- Rates --- Economic policy --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- Foreign Exchange --- International Agreements and Observance --- International Organizations --- Development Planning and Policy: Trade Policy --- Factor Movement --- Foreign Exchange Policy --- Currency --- Exchange rate arrangements --- Exchange rate policy --- Crawling peg --- Conventional peg

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Trade policy occupies an unusual and at times problematic place in the work of the IMF. Though trade policies of IMF members have strong influences on macroeconomic stability, they are often seen as peripheral to the IMF’s core competency. This evaluation, which examines the IMF’s involvement in trade policy issues during 1996–2007, addresses five questions. What is the nature of the IMF’s mandate to cover trade policy? Did the IMF work effectively with other international organizations on trade policy issues? Did the Executive Board provide clear guidance to staff on the IMF’s role and approach to trade policy? How well did the IMF address trade policy issues through lending arrangements and surveillance? Was IMF advice effective? The evaluation finds that the IMF’s role in trade policy has evolved in some desirable and some less desirable ways and recommends how to use the limited resources the IMF can devote to trade policy to fill these gaps.

Commercial policy. --- Commercial policy --- International trade. --- International cooperation. --- International Monetary Fund --- Evaluation. --- External trade --- Foreign commerce --- Foreign trade --- Global commerce --- Global trade --- Trade, International --- World trade --- Commerce --- International economic relations --- Non-traded goods --- Foreign trade policy --- International trade --- International trade policy --- Trade policy --- Economic policy --- Government policy --- Internationaal monetair fonds --- International monetary fund --- Exports and Imports --- Foreign Exchange --- Macroeconomics --- Taxation --- Industries: Financial Services --- Trade Policy --- International Trade Organizations --- Empirical Studies of Trade --- Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation --- Labor Economics: General --- Development Planning and Policy: Trade Policy --- Factor Movement --- Foreign Exchange Policy --- International economics --- Finance --- Labour --- income economics --- Currency --- Foreign exchange --- Public finance & taxation --- Trade in services --- Financial services --- Labor --- Exchange rate policy --- Trade liberalization --- Balance of trade --- Financial services industry --- Labor economics --- Tariff --- United States