Opening Markets for Trade in Services: Countries and Sectors in Bilateral and Wto Negotiations

ISBN-13: 9780521735919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 784 str.

Juan A. Marchetti; Martin Roy

Opis

This volume of essays explores the state of services liberalization and the regulation of international trade in services.

Recenzje

'While there are too many valuable contributions to cite them all here, the insights of Mukherjee, Stephenson, and Saez are particularly invaluable.' Journal of World Trade Review

Spis treści

Foreword Pascal Lamy; Summary and overview Juan A. Marchetti and Martin Roy; Part I. From Policy to Negotiations: 1. Services trade and growth Bernard Hoekman and Aaditya Mattoo; Part II. Multilateral and Bilateral Negotiations on Services: Overall Perspectives: 2. Services liberalization in the WTO and in preferential trade agreements Juan A. Marchetti and Martin Roy; 3. Preferential trade agreements in services: friends of foes of the multilateral trading system? Carsten Fink; Part III. Challenges, Issues and Opportunities in Services Sectors: 4. Telecommunications: Can trade agreements keep up with technology? L. Lee Tuthill and Laura B. Sherman; 5. Liberalization of cross-border trade in services: a developing country perspective Sumanta Chaudhuri and Suparna Karmakar; 6. Out of stock or just in time? Doha and liberalization of distribution services Martin Roy; 7. Air transport liberalization: a world apart Pierre Latrille; 8. Financial services liberalization in the WTO and preferential trade agreements Juan A. Marchetti; 9. Beyond the main screen: audiovisual services in PTAs Martin Roy; 10. Liberalization of postal and courier services: ready for delivery? Ruosi Zhang; 11. Liberalization of energy services: are PTAs more energetic than the GATS? Mireille Cossy; 12. Market access for government procurement of services: comparing recent PTAs with WTO achievements Robert D. Anderson and Anna Caroline Müller; 13. A warmer welcome? Access for natural persons under preferential trade agreements Antonia Carzaniga; Part IV. Country Experiences with Services Trade: 14. GATS plus or minus? Services commitments in comparative contexts for Colombia and Uruguay J. P. Singh; 15. Opening services markets at the regional level under the CAFTA-DR: the cases of Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic Maryse Robert and Sherry Stephenson; 16. Why isn't South Africa more pro-active in international services negotiations? Peter Draper, Nkululeko Khumalo and Matthew Stern; 17. Services liberalization in PTAs and the WTO: the experiences of India and Singapore Arpita Mukherjee; 18. The domestic dynamics of preferential services liberalization: the experience of Australia and Thailand Malcolm Bosworth and Ray Trewin; 19. The Chilean experience in services negotiations Sebastián Sáez; 20. Appendix: a readers' guide to basic GATS concepts and negotiations.