Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- List of contributors
- 1 An overview: options for global trade reform – a view from the Asia-Pacific
- 2 Agriculture and the Doha Development Agenda
- 3 Liberalizing trade in manufactures
- 4 Returning textiles and clothing to GATT disciplines
- 5 Approaches to further liberalization of trade in services
- 6 Liberalization of air transport services
- 7 Liberalization of maritime transport services
- 8 International trade in telecoms services
- 9 East Asia and options for negotiations on investment
- 10 Competition policy, developing countries, and the World Trade Organization
- 11 The long and winding road to the Government Procurement Agreement: Korea's accession experience
- 12 Trade facilitation in the World Trade Organization: Singapore to Doha and beyond
- 13 Trade, the environment, and labor: text, institutions, and context
- Index
- References
5 - Approaches to further liberalization of trade in services
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- List of contributors
- 1 An overview: options for global trade reform – a view from the Asia-Pacific
- 2 Agriculture and the Doha Development Agenda
- 3 Liberalizing trade in manufactures
- 4 Returning textiles and clothing to GATT disciplines
- 5 Approaches to further liberalization of trade in services
- 6 Liberalization of air transport services
- 7 Liberalization of maritime transport services
- 8 International trade in telecoms services
- 9 East Asia and options for negotiations on investment
- 10 Competition policy, developing countries, and the World Trade Organization
- 11 The long and winding road to the Government Procurement Agreement: Korea's accession experience
- 12 Trade facilitation in the World Trade Organization: Singapore to Doha and beyond
- 13 Trade, the environment, and labor: text, institutions, and context
- Index
- References
Summary
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was a bold and long-overdue innovation that provides a framework for continuing reform. However, there is widespread agreement that the current GATS is in need of improvement in several important areas. These include both the rules and the modest degree of liberalization achieved or committed to so far under the agreement (see, for example, Hoekman 1996; Snape and Bosworth 1996; Feketekuty 1998; Snape 1998; Sauvé and Stern 2000). With the agreement to broader negotiations reached in November 2001 at Doha, the prospects of a successful conclusion to the negotiations on services have substantially increased. The purpose of this chapter is to help identify better approaches to achieving this objective.
Substantial progress has now been made in the current round of negotiations on trade in services to identify approaches that might be used for further reform. Since the meetings of the WTO Council on Trade in Services in December 2000, there has been broad agreement that the negotiations should be based on the broad “architecture” of the GATS, and should aim to include all service sectors. It is also clear that there is a great deal of support for reciprocal, “request and offer” approaches to the negotiations and that there may be “credit” for autonomous liberalization. Requests for market access were to be submitted by June 30, 2002 and initial offers of market access by March 31, 2003, with a stocktaking at the Mexico Ministerial in mid-2003 and a target date for completion of January 2005.
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- Options for Global Trade ReformA View from the Asia-Pacific, pp. 96 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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