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Opening Markets for Trade in Services
Countries and Sectors in Bilateral and WTO Negotiations
This volume of essays explores the state of services liberalization and the regulation of international trade in services.
Juan A. Marchetti (Edited by), Martin Roy (Edited by)
9780521516044, Cambridge University Press
Hardback, published 12 February 2009
784 pages, 30 tables
23.5 x 15.8 x 4 cm, 1.35 kg
'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
Trade in services is an increasingly important part of global trade and, as such, figures prominently in multilateral, regional and bilateral trade negotiations. In this volume of essays, academics, negotiators and experts from various international organizations explore the achievements of such negotiations, together with the challenges and opportunities which arise and the motivations that come into play in such negotiations. The contributions highlight issues in important services sectors, such as distribution, energy, finance, telecommunications, air transport and the postal and audiovisual sectors, as well as areas such as cross-border trade and government procurement. Case studies look into the experiences of specific countries. The focus on sector analysis and country experiences sheds light on the state of services liberalization and the regulation of international trade in services at the beginning of the twenty-first century, making this an indispensable guide to ongoing and future international negotiations on this topic.
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.
Subject Areas: International economic & trade law [LBBM], International business [KJK], International economics [KCL]