in services affects the volume of goods trade. Additionally, because of interaction between tariffs and competition, the … agreements leading to crossborder services liberalization may boost goods trade as well, they may also lead to a fall in goods …

Are market access commitments on services in Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) reciprocal or simply unilateral? If … reciprocal, do concessions granted in services depend on concessions received from the trading partner in other services or in … non-services areas as well? In this paper we investigate the presence of reciprocity in bilateral services agreements, by …

The study tries first to assess the extent of similarities and divergences among services rules in regional trade … agreements as compared to the GATS. To do so, it uses a typology identifying variations in 48 key provisions structured under … seven themes commonly found in RTAs and using the GATS as a benchmark. The analysis identifies two main families of …

of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as … telecom regimes of selected Asian countries, and of the commitments these countries made in the recent GATS negotiations. The … paper explores the reasons why governments have taken advantage of the GATS negotiations to make multilateral market …

OECD countries vis-à-vis 69 exporters. Competition in services affects the volume of goods trade while the market structure … competition apparently matters most for exporters in smaller, poorer countries. By ignoring the structure of the domestic services …

initiatives reinforce the global services regime. This paper proposes an amendment of the current GATS Article V to define the … 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 …

the possibilities of liberalizing trade in telecommunication services if India and its largest trading partner-the US … services and that it should be a priority sector in the FTA negotiations. The study identified certain areas such as R … mutually beneficial. The study found that telecommunication services have been significantly liberalized in the US FTAs …

partners. In this context, the present paper discusses the prospects of liberalizing audiovisual services under a possible Indo …