liberalization. This paper provides an overview of the scheduling approaches adopted in 187 trade agreements notified under GATS …

Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody …: the key provisions regarding the scope of application of the GATS and the GPA make clear that each serves purposes that … reflection, several related options: (i) the built-in mandate in the GATS for negotiations on services procurement (Article XIII …

perspective, under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Without proposing any priorities, this paper seeks to … disciplines under existing provisions to advancing the liberalization and rule-making mandates of the GATS with an SME focus …. -- Trade in Services ; GATS ; small- and medium-sized enterprises …

There has been virtually no liberalization under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) to date. Most …

(RTAs) have increasingly adopted trade-facilitating disciplines that both build upon and innovate the GATS framework. By …

The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the GATS/Telecom Agreement. This is done by looking at the guiding principles …. The WTO GATS/Telecom Agreement comes out rather well from this evaluation exercise. …

COMESA) and discusses the existing GATS commitments of the relevant countries with respect to financial services. Although …