The Regulation Of International Trade The Gats General Agreement On Trade In Services

Author : Petros C. Mavroidis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : 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 : Petros C. Mavroidis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780262044554

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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. Mavroidis examines the GATS through its negotiating record, considering whether the GATS as it is can appropriately address the concerns of the world trading community. The GATS deals exclusively with non-tariff barriers (NTBs)—precisely the instrument that the WTO has not managed to tame—and one of some significance in light of the digital revolution, which has enlarged the scope of cross-border transactions in which neither supplier nor consumer needs to travel for a service to be consumed. Mavroidis argues that the GATS has brought about a platform to liberalize services, and has locked in some pre-GATS liberalization. What is missing, he contends, is a “GATS-Think” that would generate liberalization from now on.

Author : Pietro Poretti
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Rüdiger Wolfrum,Peter-Tobias Stoll,Clemens Feinäugle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789047427360

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WTO - Trade in Services by Rüdiger Wolfrum,Peter-Tobias Stoll,Clemens Feinäugle Pdf

This volume will be a valuable reference tool for the WTO community as a whole, as well as for professionals and researchers, who deal with one of the sectors concerned, e.g. financial services and telecommunications.

Author : Petros C. Mavroidis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:953423336

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The Regulation of International Trade by Petros C. Mavroidis Pdf

Author : International Trade Centre
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789213618509

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Business Guide to the General Agreement on Trade in Services by International Trade Centre Pdf

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is an historical agreement covering a wide range of international service transactions. This guide presents the key features of the multilateral system of trade rules covering services. It also identifies the main opportunities and challenges that may be encountered at the practical business level in the implementation of GATS rules and market access commitments.

Author : Marion Panizzon,Nicole Pohl,Pierre Sauvé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0511414897

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GATS and the Regulation of International Trade in Services by Marion Panizzon,Nicole Pohl,Pierre Sauvé Pdf

Collection of essays on the challenges arising from the General Agreement on Trade in Services in the mid-1990s.

Author : Marion Panizzon,Nicole Pohl,Pierre Sauvé
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521896886

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GATS and the Regulation of International Trade in Services by Marion Panizzon,Nicole Pohl,Pierre Sauvé Pdf

This collection of essays takes stock of the key challenges that have arisen since the entry into force of the General Agreement on Trade in Services in the mid-1990s and situates them in the context of the WTO's Doha Development Agenda and the proliferation of preferential agreements addressing services today. The multidisciplinary approach provides an opportunity for many of the world's leading experts and a number of new analytical voices to exchange ideas on the future of services trade and regulation. Cosmopolitan approaches to the treatment of labour mobility, the shape of services trade disciplines in the digital age and pro-competitive regulation in air transport are explored with a view to helping readers gain a better understanding of the forces shaping the changes. An essential read for all those concerned with the evolution of the rules-based trading system and its impact on the service economy.

Author : Duy Dinh
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781789908091

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Rules of Origin for Services by Duy Dinh Pdf

In an era where services play an increasingly vital role in servicified global value chains, this insightful book provides a comprehensive study of legal aspects of rules of origin for services and their importance in international trade.

Author : Kern Alexander,Mads Tønnesson Andenæs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004162440

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The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services by Kern Alexander,Mads Tønnesson Andenæs Pdf

The World Trade Organisation plays the primary role in regulating international trade in goods, services and intellectual property. Traditionally, international trade law and regulation has been analysed primarily from the trade-in-goods perspective. Services are becoming an important competence for the WTO. The institutional, legal and regulatory influence of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) on domestic economic policymaking is attracting increasing attention in the academic and policymaking literature. The growing importance of services trade to the global economy makes the application of the GATS to trade in services an important concern of international economic policy. The GATS contains important innovations that build on the former GATT and existing WTO/GATT trade regime for goods. This book fills a void in the academic and policymaking literature by examining how the GATS governs international trade in services and its growing impact on the regulatory practice of WTO member states. It offers a unique discussion of the major is-sues confronting WTO member states by analysing the GATS and related international trade issues from a variety of perspectives that include law, political economy, regulation, and business. Moreover, the role of the WTO in promoting liberalised trade and economic development has come under serious strain because of the breakdown of the Doha Development Round negotiations. The book analyses the issues in the Doha services debate with some suggested policy approaches that might help build a more durable GATS framework. The book is a welcomed addition to the WTO literature and will serve as a point of reference for academics, policymakers andpractitioners.

Author : Chantal Blouin,Nick Drager,Richard Smith
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821362127

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International Trade in Health Services and the GATS by Chantal Blouin,Nick Drager,Richard Smith Pdf

Health ministries around the world face a new challenge: to assess the risks and respond to the opportunities of the increasing openness in health services under the World Trade Organization's (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). 'International Trade in Health Services and the GATS' addresses this challenge head-on by providing analytical tools to policymakers in health and trade ministries alike who are involved in the liberalization agenda and, specifically, in the GATS negotiations. This book informs and assists policymakers in formulating trade policy and negotiating internationally. There is ongoing and animated international debate about the impact of GATS on public services in general and health in particular. In response, the book offers different perspectives from more than 15 leading experts. Some of the authors stress opportunities linked to trade in health services, others focus more on the risks. The book offers: Detailed legal analysis of the impact of the agreement on health policy An overview of trade commitments in health-related services New empirical evidence from nine country studies A simple 10-step explanation on how to deal with GATS negotiations. 'International Trade in Health Services and the GATS' is a must-have resource for policymakers and other practitioners working in the trade and health sectors.

Author : Michael J. Trebilcock,Robert Howse
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Commercial treaties
ISBN : 0415700345

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The Regulation of International Trade by Michael J. Trebilcock,Robert Howse Pdf

Fully updated, this new edition takes account of the most recent developments in international trade. Drawing on the success of the earlier edition, it provides a comprehensive introduction to the rules and institutions that govern international trade, including: competition, labor rights, the Multilateral Agreement of Investment, the Basic Telecoms and Financial Services World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements, and an analysis of the first three years of WTO dispute rulings. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Commonwealth Secretariat
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 085092541X

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Business Guide to the General Agreement on Trade in Services by Commonwealth Secretariat Pdf

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is a historical agreement covering a wide range of international service transactions. In support of further trade negotiations, the Guide also highlights issues in which the business community may wish to provide input as preparations for trade negotiations move forward.

Author : Markus Krajewski
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041121417

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National Regulation and Trade Liberalization in Services by Markus Krajewski Pdf

Like tariffs and other border measures, national regulatory barriers impede international trade. Unlike tariffs, however, such barriers usually indicate an important domestic policy choice. This 'conflict of interest' has emerged as a crucial issue in international law, particularly with regard to services, such as telecommunications and health services. This study is the first to analyze the potential impact of incompatibilities between national regulatory regimes and the rules and obligations imposed by the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). In the process of arriving at his challenging concluding theses, the author investigates such relevant concepts as the following: the political and ideological dynamics of GATS negotiations services trade liberalization in regional integration systems, particularly in EC law policies common to diverse national regulatory systems the notions of 'deregulation' and 'privatization' the human rights implications of international trade law the GATS obligations of market access, national treatment, and most-favoured-nation treatment the role of the WTO's dispute settlement organs GATS transparency obligations Professor Krajewski's study is of enormous significance to specialists in regulatory policies and instruments at all national and sectoral levels, especially in the context of ongoing GATS negotiations. As the author warns: Unless GATS negotiators and national regulators have a thorough understanding of the relationship between GATS obligations and regulatory policies and instruments, they cannot effectively use the flexible elements of GATS and could reach an agreement which they may later regret.