To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic …

these firms wanted from the government was help in documenting their exports. The primary reasons firms did not seek … government assistance were a lack of knowledge of the service and the service is not useful. The most often used non-government …