services over the past 15 years. It is shown that trade in services is the fastest growing segment of international trade, and … international trade in services; however, the positions of developing countries and countries with transition economies have been … gradually strengthening. The features of sectoral structures of trade in services in developed and developing countries are …

market openness and rule-making for services trade. Recent RTAs are breaking down existing barriers: on average, removing … between 10% and 40% of services restrictions present in the multilateral regime, and going significantly further in binding … applied services regimes. When measured against the benchmark of commitments in the General Agreement on Trade in Services …

This contribution offers a comprehensive analysis of Art. XIX GATS, entitled “Negotiation of Specific Commitments …”, which clarifies the manner in which negotiations under the GATS should proceed in order to progressively achieve higher … negotiations on services, such as Members’ national policy objectives and their level of development, and ensuring appropriate …

' in GATS rules on non-discrimination has received little attention in WTO jurisprudence. In light of the remaining … uncertainties, Nicolas Diebold analyses the legal problems of the GATS 'like services and services suppliers' concept using a …. Particularities of trade in services and GATS; 3. Legal elements of non-discrimination obligations; 4. Concluding summary: reconciling …

wider issue of Community competence in the broadened sphere of international trade in goods, services and intellectual … on the provisions of World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreements, except in special circumstances. Various commentators … have described the basis on which the Court relies for its denial of direct effect to WTO Agreements as somewhat untenable …

-specific negotiations both outside the WTO such as the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), and within, in the form of Joint Statement … multilateral trading system in the form of the World Trade Organization (WTO) of free trade agreements (FTAs) at a time when FTAs … of the Doha Round, WTO Members have increasingly formed FTAs with more than one large economy; plurilateral as well as …

In this paper, we project the impact of the implementation of a Joint Statement Initiative (JSI) on Services Domestic … Regulation (SDR). We proceed in three steps. First, we include the WTO SDR Index, a binary score of SDR implementation in 23 … sectors and 86 economies, in a gravity equation, estimated with the balance of payments services trade. We take into account …