Business Guide to the General Agreement on Trade in Services

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The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is a historical agreement covering a wide range of international service transactions. The underlying theme of this Guide is that competitive suppliers of all kinds of services, both from developing and developed economies, can expect to benefit directly from the more open trading regime of GATS which aims to reduce and eventually eliminate regulatory restrictions affecting the international supply of services. Users of services, including service businesses themselves, can also expect to gain from the greater variety of service products and prices offered by more companies around the world. The primary focus of the Guide is to inform the business community of the key features of the multilateral system of trade rules covering services. It seeks to improve understanding by the business community of the rights and benefits GATS confers and the obligations it imposes on them and their governments. 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. A new round of liberalisation negotiations will begin by the year 2000. It is hoped that the Guide will also be helpful to trade officials in developing countries and economies in transition as they develop their trade policies and prepare for the next round. 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.

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Trade flows in services
3
The rationale for GATS
10
Examining modes of supply
22
GATS and the business community
30
The national treatment commitment
51
level of commitments by services sector
56
Liberalization commitments in the tourism and travel services sector
57
Liberalization commitments in the financial services sector
64
Chapter 4
83
Examples of critical intersectoral linkages by sector
84
Chapter 5
97
sources of foreign exchange earnings 1997
103
exports of selected services 1994
112
Appendices
115
Boxes
121
WTO classification of services sectors
155

Liberalization commitments in the transportation services sector
70
level of commitments in the transportation
71
Liberalization commitments in the health and social services sector
77
level of commitments in the health
78
national enquiry
219
Summary of specific commitments
227
Selected resources
233
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