The GATS preamble already highlights the inevitable conflict between on the one hand achieving progressively higher levels of liberalization of trade in services in order to expand trade in services and promote growth, and on the other hand the right to introduce new regulation to meet national...

This paper addresses how Brazil's use of the WTO dispute settlement vis-à-vis the EU has an impact on trade relations between both parties. After describing their economic relationship, it is demonstrated that Brazil and the EU are not only successful and avid users of the dispute settlement...

At the multilateral level, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) regulates trade in services. Considered a framework agreement, GATS contains a built-in negotiation mandate to further develop disciplines on services trade. These negotiations have, in the context of the Doha Round,...

This report first identifies and selects three case studies for this report and the underlying research track. They are the EU-Colombia & Peru, EU-Singapore and EU-Georgia RTAs. The report then introduces a (rebuttable) presumption in favour of WTO consistent interpretation of the provisions of...