overlap with obligations assumed by WTO Members under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). About 60 per cent of … world foreign investment stocks are in services and, thus, covered by mode 3 (commercial presence) of the GATS. A closer … developing countries, than those scheduled under the GATS. Furthermore, a number of obligations enshrined in BITs go beyond their …

Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) are a relatively frequent phenomenon. However, they have gone widely unnoticed in the … poisonous and, for various reasons, would deserve close attention. Given the broad definitional scope of the GATS, extending … economies. Their existence casts doubts on the legal status of the respective agreements under the GATS and can have severe …

Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody …: the key provisions regarding the scope of application of the GATS and the GPA make clear that each serves purposes that … reflection, several related options: (i) the built-in mandate in the GATS for negotiations on services procurement (Article XIII …

(GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent … of competition was not deemed feasible, not much advantage has been taken of the GATS to lend credibility to …

negotiating process. -- Services ; Preferential Trade Agreements ; reciprocity ; WTO ; GATS …

There has been virtually no liberalization under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) to date. Most …