enhance transparency and predictability in the international trade order …Agreed commitments under GATS — both general and specific — amount to substantial qualifications to the exercise of … sovereignty and powers in shaping domestic regulation of services. Members therefore agreed to introduce security exceptions aimed …

One of the most important and difficult issues in international trade is the relationship between international trade … tension between trade liberalization and domestic regulatory autonomy, services trade is at least comparable to goods trade …. Of course, there are significant differences between goods and services trade, and among services trade sectors, but …

production process and/or provide services in the form of final goods. It encompasses not only outsourcing of service functions … international division of manufacturing through transportation, telecommunications, finance, and logistics services, but more ….Within the GATT/WTO multilateral system, the liberalization of goods and services has been pursued separately within the GATT and …

Services (GATS); the Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement); the Agreement on Trade … competition policy are incorporated in the WTO General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); the General Agreement on Trade in … competition policy in the Protocols of Accessions that apply to new WTO Members, and in the work of the WTO Trade Policy Review …

Up to date, the existing WTO jurisprudence in services has not yet provided sufficient guideline to answer the basic … their obligations on market access and national treatment? In the most recent WTO dispute in services, the Panel provided … access), or Article XVII (national treatment), or both? And how does the sectoral inscription in the Members' Schedule affect …

movement of capital in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) requires stretching the regulatory oversight of WTO … the discipline provided by the GATS on capital movements will affect not only trade in services, but also the Members …This article will analyze the interplay between capital movements and trade in services as structured in World Trade …

The creation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), in the Uruguay Round, and its entry into force in … and agencies involved in services trade. Further, the positive-list, or bottom-up, approach to scheduling trade … international services trade within an increasingly open environment in many countries. Given the peculiarities of services trade …

Trade in Services (GATS) have prevented WTO Members from advancing services liberalization under the Agreement. The GATS is …-Round process, WTO accession cases and different types of regional trade agreements, suggests that such structural issues have …-down or negative listing). However, a closer look at services negotiations conducted in various settings, including the Doha …

The creation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), in the Uruguay Round, and its entry into force in … and agencies involved in services trade. Further, the positive-list, or bottom-up, approach to scheduling trade … international services trade within an increasingly open environment in many countries. Given the peculiarities of services trade …

In order to promote international trade in services, the WTO-GATS aims at progressively eliminating discriminatory …Afin de promouvoir le commerce international de services, l'AGCS (OMC) a pour but l'élimination des régulations … importateurs constituent une barrière importante au commerce international de services. Ces régulations réduisent à la fois la …