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- Shaping Future GATS Rules For Trade In Services
- The GATS is justifiably credited with having created a more secure environment for trade in services. However, even though it has put in place a useful framework to deal with explicit protection, it has not generated either the negotiating momentum to reduce such protection or the rules to ensure that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Outsourcing and Offshoring Under the GATS
- Globalization and the growth of outsourcing and off shoring are challenging international trade regulations. This paper asserts that current GATS framework suffers from several weaknesses including an inadequate classification method, difficulties in determining rules of origin and an opening for protectionist approaches through an inconclusive interpretation to footnote 9 to...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- WTO CONSIDERING A "GATS VISA".
- NEW DELHI, Nov 27 Asia Pulse - In a bid to facilitate smooth movement of service professionals between countries, the World Trade Organisation WTO is exploring the possibility of having 'GATS visa', a special category visa, Deputy Director ... NEW DELHI, Nov 27 Asia Pulse...
- Research articles 2002-11-27
- NEW GUIDE TO GATS PUBLISHED BY EU COMMISSION
- The European Commission published a guide to the General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS on November 9, showing the effects of the Uruguay Round world trade deal on European exporters of tourism, telecoms, distribution, finance, construction, traThe European Commission published a guide to the General Agreement...
- Research articles 1995-11-21
- GATS Attendees Give TRANSFLO Express® Truck Stop Scanning Two Thumbs Up
- TAMPA, Fla. -- Driver response at the recent Great American Trucking Show GATS confirms that Pegasus TransTech's truck stop scanning service is an unqualified hit with drivers and owner operators across the country. Held August 25-27th in Dallas, TX, GATS was attended by more than 44,000 people, including drivers,...
- Research articles 2005-10-04
- Preempting Protectionism in Services: The GATS and Outsourcing
- Cross-border trade in services is growing rapidly, with both developed and developing countries among the most dynamic exporters. Despite the substantial global benefits from such trade, the adjustment pressures created in importing countries could provoke a protectionist backlash - some signs of which are already visible in procurement and regulatory...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Pre-Empting Protectionism In Services: The GATS And Outsourcing
- Cross-border trade in services is growing rapidly, with both developed and developing countries among the most dynamic exporters. Despite the substantial global benefits from such trade, the adjustment pressures created in importing countries could provoke a protectionist backlash - some signs of which are already visible in procurement and regulatory...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- The WTO Services Agreement: Possible Impacts On Agriculture
- This white paper analyzes the World Trade Organization WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS and the current GATS negotiations, begun in 2000 and scheduled for completion on January 1, 2005 (known as GATS 2000), with respect to service industry sectors related to agriculture. Particular attention is given to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The General Agreement on Trade in Services: Implications for Health Policymakers
- The General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS, created under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, aims to regulate measures affecting international trade in services, including health services such as health insurance, hospital services, telemedicine, and acquisition of medical treatment abroad. The agreement has been the subject of great...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Services in the WTO: recent developments and overview
- The GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services is one of 15 agreements which together make up the WTO World Trade Organization agreements. The GATS has three legally binding parts, the framework agreement, the annexes to the framework agreement, and the schedules of commitments of each country. Each country's schedule...
- Research articles 1998-04-01
- Polycom's SoundStation. (group audio terminal) (Evaluation)
- Polycom, Inc., a San Jose, CA, startup rounded by Brian Hinman, a cofounder of PictureTel, recently announced SoundStation, a new full-duplex group audio terminal GAT for both desktop and meeting-room use. GATs are specialized speakerphones desig Polycom, Inc., a San Jose, CA, startup rounded...
- Research articles 1992-09-01
- EGYPT: WTO DENIES EGYPT'S SUGAR TARIFF REQUEST.(Brief Article)
- Confectionary and sweet manufacturers threatened to seek World Trade Organization WTO arbitration if the Egyptian government did not put up with General Agreement on Trade and Services GATS measures specifying a tariff reduction on imported sugar Confectionary and sweet manufacturers threatened to seek World Trade...
- Research articles 2000-07-30
- ICAO CALLS FOR REGULATION OUTSIDE OF THE WTO.
- "The liberalisation of international air transport is progressing on the basis of specific needs, interests and circumstances of States and a wholesale application of the General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS to the air sector is not req "The liberalisation of international air transport is...
- Research articles 2000-06-16
- Explaining Liberalization Commitments in Financial Services Trade
- This article examines the determinants of market access commitments in international financial services trade in the General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS. Based on a theoretical model, it empirically investigates the role of domestic political economy forces, international bargaining considerations, and the state of complementary policy. The empirical results...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- International Trade in Services: Implications for the IMF
- This paper reviews the characteristics of international trade in services and of the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS framework, which was established to regulate it. Further liberalization of services trade in developing countries, as currently envisaged in the context of the WTO Doha Development Agenda,...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Market Structure, Trade Liberalization and the GATS
- This paper examines the interaction between the different modes of market access commitments in services (cross-border and establishment) market structure, and regulation. The paper focuses on the impact of improved domestic market access for a Foreign Service provider on a domestic service market. It works with a model where the...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- Telecommunications and the WTO: The Case of Mexico
- The U.S.-Mexico case (2002-04) was the first and so far only case of World Trade Organization WTO dispute resolution on telecommunications services and the first on services only. The findings of the Panel charged with settling the dispute contain interpretations of the General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS, especially...
- White papers 2005-10-20
- Human Resource Requirements of the Financial Sector Under a Liberalized Regime
- This study presented in this paper looked at the human resource requirements of the financial sector under a liberalized regime within the General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS framework. The study covered the personnel requirements of the banking, stock brokerage and insurance sub-sectors. Using key informants, the study identified...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Chevron Addresses How to Get the Most from New API CJ-4 Diesel Engine Oil at the Great American Trucking Show; Jim McGeehan to Discuss Optimizing New and Legacy Equipment Performance with CJ-4 During Key Seminar
- SAN RAMON, Calif. -- Owner operators and fleet maintenance managers are encouraged to sign up for Chevron's free API CJ-4 seminar at this year's Great American Trucking Show GATS. The presentation will take a detailed look at the new heavy-duty diesel engine oil category and its use with 2007 and...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- Principal Financial Group Executive Calls for Greater Enforcement of GATS in Senate Testimony
- DES MOINES, Iowa--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 22, 1999--
- Research articles 1999-10-22
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