A Handbook on the GATS Agreement: A WTO Secretariat PublicationCambridge University Press, 2005 M05 5 This handbook aims to provide a better understanding of GATS and the challenges and opportunities of the ongoing negotiations. For users who are familiar with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), similarities and differences are pointed out where relevant. Likewise, for users who are familiar with the balance-of-payments definition of 'trade', departures from the Agreement's coverage are explained. To stimulate further thinking about the core concepts and implications of the Agreement, several text boxes have been included to provide 'food for thought', and at the end of each chapter test questions have been added to recapitulate and ensure understanding of the core content. |
Contenido
The role and responsibilities of Member governments | 30 |
The challenges ahead | 37 |
Preparing requests and offers | 43 |
Index | 91 |
Términos y frases comunes
access and national additional commitments affecting trade agreement or arrangement air transport services Annex on Article Article II Exemptions Article VI:4 Article XIV Article XVI commercial presence computer reservation system consultations Council for Trade date of entry disciplines Dispute Settlement Domestic Regulation economic electronic commerce enquiry points entry into force establish existing export foreign GATS GATT implementation integration International Telecommunication Union juridical person licensing market access Marrakesh Agreement measures affecting Member shall ensure Member's Schedule ment Ministerial Conference modes of supply modification or withdrawal monopoly most-favoured-nation multilateral national treatment natural persons networks and services paragraph parties plurilateral policy objectives potentially procedures public telecommunications transport recognition referred regulatory relevant request requirements restrictions schedule of commitments scope services sectors services trade specific commitments subparagraph subsidies supply of services telecommunications transport networks territory Trade in Services transparency Uruguay Round WTO Agreement WTO Members WTO Secretariat
Pasajes populares
Página 56 - The provisions of this paragraph shall not require any contracting party to disclose confidential information which would impede law enforcement or otherwise be contrary to the public interest or would prejudice the legitimate commercial interests of particular enterprises, public or private.
Página 60 - With a view to ensuring that measures relating to qualification requirements and procedures, technical standards and licensing requirements do not constitute unnecessary barriers to trade in services, the Council for Trade in Services shall, through appropriate bodies it may establish, develop any necessary disciplines.
Página 55 - Agreement, each Member shall accord immediately and unconditionally to services and service suppliers of any other Member treatment no less favourable than that it accords to like services and service suppliers of any other country.
Página 82 - ... as a distinct sector of economic activity and as the underlying transport means for other economic activities, the Members have agreed to the following Annex with the objective of elaborating upon the provisions of the Agreement with respect to measures affecting access to and use of public telecommunications transport networks and services.
Página 59 - In sectors where specific commitments are undertaken, each Member shall ensure that all measures of general application affecting trade in services are administered in a reasonable, objective and impartial manner.
Página 54 - Negotiations in this area shall aim to establish a multilateral framework of principles and rules for trade in services, including elaboration of possible disciplines for individual sectors...
Página 65 - ... necessary to secure compliance with laws or regulations which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement...
Página 54 - This process shall take place with a view to promoting the interests of all participants on a mutually advantageous basis and to securing an overall balance of rights and obligations.