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services? This article argues that regionalism is certainly a building block, not a stumbling block to a multilateral trading … system, using the services liberalization scheme of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a case study. At the … initiatives reinforce the global services regime. This paper proposes an amendment of the current GATS Article V to define the …
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services? This article argues that regionalism is certainly a building block, not a stumbling block to a multilateral trading … system, using the services liberalization scheme of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a case study. At the … initiatives reinforce the global services regime. This paper proposes an amendment of the current GATS Article V to define the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281475
visitors (seven ASEAN Member States, or AMSs), intra-corporate transferees (all the AMSs), and contractual services suppliers …ASEAN Economic Ministers signed the Agreement on the Movement of Natural Persons (MNP) in 2012. This is a new … instrument potentially facilitating the free flow of goods, services, investment, and skilled labour, thus contributing to the …
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performance - affordable and efficient public infrastructure and services - remains lacking in this region - notably, in Sub …
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The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was set up in 2003 with the objectives of creating a single market and production … involves liberalization and facilitation of trade in goods, services, and investment, as well as protection and promotion of … are difficulties with the removal of non-tariff barriers as well as with the liberalization of services and investment …
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ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG : The ASEAN summit of October 2021 showed the increased geopolitical importance of … the Indo-Pacific realm. Today ASEAN is the most successful regional organization in Asia and the second largest worldwide … and trade links. Although interregional trade increased, Africa remained a small part of ASEAN with only around 2% of its …
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Significant progress has been made by the East African Community partner states in implementing the East African Community customs union. Trade within the East African Community is now free from import duties, and partner states have adopted a three-band common external tariff. This paper...
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This paper discusses the opportunities and challenges for Southern and Eastern African ACP countries of services … negotiations in the context of European Partnership Agreements. The paper provides an overview of existing flows in services from … differences among services sectors, the paper provides a separate discussion for several of them, including financial services …
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This paper discusses the opportunities and challenges for Southern and Eastern African ACP countries of services … negotiations in the context of European Partnership Agreements. The paper provides an overview of existing flows in services from … differences among services sectors, the paper provides a separate discussion for several of them, including financial services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114991
possible advantages and disadvantages for ACP countries of including the services sector in these regional agreements. It … describes the latest developments in a number of services sectors, including financial services, tourism and business services … preferential access to EU suppliers in those services sectors where African countries are likely to import. …
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