Regulatory Cooperation Aid For Trade And The General Agreement On Trade In Services

Author : Aaditya Mattoo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781218091356

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Regulatory Cooperation, Aid for Trade and the General Agreement on Trade in Services by Aaditya Mattoo Pdf

This paper discusses what could be done to expand services trade and investment through a multilateral agreement in the World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for benefiting from market opening. The authors argue that prospects for multilateral services liberalization would be enhanced by making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World Trade Organization would be facilitated by complementary actions to strengthen regulatory capacity. If pursued as part of the operationalization of the World Trade Organization's 2006 Aid for Trade taskforce report, the World Trade Organization could become more relevant in promoting not just services liberalization but, more importantly, domestic reforms of services policies.

Author : Bernard Hoekman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290703166

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Regulatory Cooperation, Aid for Trade and the General Agreement on Trade in Services by Bernard Hoekman Pdf

This paper discusses what could be done to expand services trade and investment through a multilateral agreement in the World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for benefiting from market opening. The authors argue that prospects for multilateral services liberalization would be enhanced by making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World Trade Organization would be facilitated by complementary actions to strengthen regulatory capacity. If pursued as part of the operationalization of the World Trade Organization's 2006 Aid for Trade taskforce report, the World Trade Organization could become more relevant in promoting not just services liberalization but, more importantly, domestic reforms of services policies.

Author : Petros C. Mavroidis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780262360616

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The Regulation of International Trade, Volume 3 by Petros C. Mavroidis Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of GATS that considers its historical context, the national preferences that shaped it, and a path to a GATS 2.0. The previous two volumes in The Regulation of International Trade analyzed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the first successful agreement to generate multilateral trade liberalization, and the World Trade Organization (WTO), for which the GATT laid the groundwork. In this third volume, Petros Mavroidis turns to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), a WTO treaty that took effect in 1995, and offers a comprehensive analysis that considers the historical context of the GATS, the national preferences that shaped it, and a path to a GATS 2.0.

Author : Pietro Poretti
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041131621

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The Regulation of Subsidies Within the General Agreement on Trade in Services of the WTO by Pietro Poretti Pdf

"The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) extends the multilateral trading system to services. Little is said In the GATS about subsidies, beyond stipulating that subsidies are subject to the existing provisions, including the most-favoured-nation and national-treatment principles, and that Members shall enter into negotiations with a view to developing the disciplines necessary to avoid the trade distorting effects of subsidies." "This timely book provides a comprehensive analysis of services subsidies under the GATS. It begins with a description of services and trade in services, and of the salient characteristics that make regulation of services subsidies more complex than those associated with agricultural and industrial goods. It then analyzes the economic arguments underpinning the need for regulation, as well as the need for governments to retain sufficient latitude to implement non-trade-related policy measures. A description of the information available on services subsidies is followed by a classification of services subsidies according to their distortive effects, and by a detailed analysis of those elements that may form a definition of services subsidies for the purpose of a future regulatory framework." "A key section is devoted to the analysis of those existing provisions of the GATS that may exert a certain measure of discipline on services subsidies, and to the question of the desirability and technical feasibility of countervailing measures. Rules on services subsidies contained in regional trade agreements and the need for special and differential treatment for services subsidies by developing countries are also discussed. Finally, and prior to the conclusion, two sectoral studies deal with the question of subsidies aimed at attracting foreign direct investment and subsidies to the audiovisual sector." "This work represents the first extensive and comprehensive analysis of the issue of services subsidies in the context of the GATS, and includes numerous references to relevant European Union State Aid legislation and jurisprudence." --Book Jacket.

Author : World Trade Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : UGA:32108061069053

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Facilitating Trade Through Regulatory Cooperation by World Trade Organization Pdf

The WTO plays an important role in supporting efforts to achieve international regulatory cooperation (IR C) and to facilitate trade. First, the WTO provides a multilateral framework for trade among its 164 members, with a view to ensuring that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible. Second, the WTO's Agreements provide important legal disciplines, helping to promote good regulatory practice and IR C at the domestic level as a means of reducing unnecessary barriers to trade. This publication highlights how the WTO's Agreements on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) and the work of their related Committees promote opportunities for regulatory cooperation among governments and ease trade frictions. It demonstrates how members' notification of draft measures, harmonisation of measures with international standards, discussion of specific trade concerns and other practices help to facilitate global trade in goods. The study also makes recommendations on how to benefit further from the transparency and cooperation opportunities provided by the TBT and SPS Agreements.

Author : Petros C. Mavroidis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Foreign trade regulation
ISBN : LCCN:2015038275

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The Regulation of International Trade: The GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services by Petros C. Mavroidis Pdf

"The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has extended its institutional arsenal since the Kennedy round in the early 1960s. The current institutional design is the outcome of the Uruguay round and agreements reached in the ongoing Doha round (begun in 2001). One of the institutional outgrowths of GATT is the World Trade Organization (WT0), created in 1995. In this book, Petros Mavroidis offers a detailed examination of WTO agreements regulating trade in goods, discussing legal context, policy background, economic rationale, and case law."--Publisher's description.

Author : Dorothy I. Riddle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : General Agreement on Trade in Services
ISBN : 9291371181

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Business Guide to the General Agreement on Trade in Services by Dorothy I. Riddle Pdf

Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCBK:C107411463

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Most-favoured-nation Treatment by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Pdf

The publication contains an explanation of Most Favored Nation (MFN) treatment and some of the key issues that arise in its negotiation, particularly the scope and application of MFN treatment to the liberalization and protection of foreign investors in recent treaty practice. The paper provides policy options as regards the traditional application of MFN treatment and identifies reactions by States to the unexpected broad use of MFN treatment, and provides several drafting options, such as specifying or narrowing down the scope of application of MFN treatment to certain types of activities, clarifying the nature of "treatment" under the IIA, clarifying the comparison that an arbitral tribunal needs to undertake as well as a qualification of the comparison "in like circumstances" or excluding its use in investor-State cases.

Author : Pierre Sauve,Aaditya Mattoo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821383438

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Domestic Regulation and Service Trade Liberalization by Pierre Sauve,Aaditya Mattoo Pdf

Trade in services, far more than trade in goods, is affected by a variety of domestic regulations, ranging from qualification and licensing requirements in professional services to pro-competitive regulation in telecommunications services. Experience shows that the quality of regulation strongly influences the consequences of trade liberalization. WTO members have agreed that a central task in the ongoing services negotiations will be to develop a set of rules to ensure that domestic regulations support rather than impede trade liberalization. Since these rules are bound to have a profound impact on the evolution of policy, particularly in developing countries, it is important that they be conducive to economically rational policy-making. This book addresses two central questions: What impact can international trade rules on services have on the exercise of domestic regulatory sovereignty? And how can services negotiations be harnessed to promote and consolidate domestic policy reform across highly diverse sectors? The book, with contributions from several of the world's leading experts in the field, explores a range of rule-making challenges arising at this policy interface, in areas such as transparency, standards and the adoption of a necessity test for services trade. Contributions also provide an in-depth look at these issues in the key areas of accountancy, energy, finance, health, telecommunications and transportation services.

Author : Jandhyala B. G. Tilak
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education and globalization
ISBN : 9280313622

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Trade in Higher Education by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak Pdf

Trade in Higher Education: The role of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) - Internationalization of higher education has been evolving over the years. Today, trade in education has become an important framework under which cross-border mobility of students, institutions, programs, and teachers takes place. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) has systematized and formalized the conditions for trade in services including education. This book provides a detailed analysis of various dimensions of the GATS and its implications for development of higher education, especially in developing countries. The analysis also provides a critical assessment of the benefits derived and potential threats posed by trading in education. It is hoped that the study will provide useful insights on the issue for educational policy-makers, planners, and researchers.

Author : OECD,World Trade Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264235793

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Aid for Trade at a Glance 2015 Reducing Trade Costs for Inclusive, Sustainable Growth by OECD,World Trade Organization Pdf

The Aid for Trade Initiative has allowed for the active engagement of a large number of organisations and agencies in helping developing countries and especially the least developed build the infrastructure and supply-side capacity they need to connect to regional and global markets and improve ...

Author : Aaditya Mattoo,Robert M. Stern,Robert Mitchell Stern,Gianni Zanini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199235216

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A Handbook of International Trade in Services by Aaditya Mattoo,Robert M. Stern,Robert Mitchell Stern,Gianni Zanini Pdf

This title provides a comprehensive introduction to the key issues in trade and liberalization of services. Providing a useful overview of the players involved, the barriers to trade, and case studies in a number of service industries, this is ideal for policymakers and students interested in trade.

Author : OECD,World Trade Organisation
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264201440

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Aid for Trade in Action by OECD,World Trade Organisation Pdf

The almost 300 case stories in this book show clear results of how aid-for-trade programmes are helping developing countries to build human, institutional and infrastructure capacity to integrate into regional and global markets and to make good use of trade opportunities.

Author : Sebasti n S ez
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821384112

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Trade in Services Negotiations by Sebasti n S ez Pdf

This book aims at contributing to address some of the challenge that developing countries, especially the least-developing countries, face in the design of trade in service policies and to provide governments with tools to better incorporate services in their export strategies, including negotiations and cooperation with trading partners, and unilateral reforms. This book helps to identify key policy challenges faced by developing country trade negotiators, regulatory policy officials and/or service suppliers. Management of both policy reforms and trade agreements requires investments in sounder regulatory regimes and the establishment of enforcement mechanisms to help countries gradually opening and mitigate any potential downside risks. A successful strategy requires a proper sequencing that through an orderly and transparent process allows to prepare for greater competition. Developing countries face serious resource and administrative constraints to adequately negotiate multiple services agreements that serve their trade interest. For many developing countries, the administrative burden of handling and negotiating multiple trade agreements has become a serious concern and this can hamper their opportunities to obtain adequate market access for their services exports. The book develops in detail the methodological framework for the construction of a database and the core elements that will comprise it, to help countries to organize and manage their services commitments. Little attention has been devoted to the organization/preparation and the development, assessment and conclusion of the negotiation process. The book presents a simulation exercise designed for policymakers, trade negotiators, and trade practitioners working in the area of services. This exercise will help them to better understand the preparatory and negotiating stages of the process leading to liberalization of trade in services.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Trade Organization
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Commercial policy
ISBN : 9789287034953

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Understanding the WTO by Anonim Pdf