services notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS …), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of …

services notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS …), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of …

reduction of “water in the GATS” – measured as the difference in openness under applied services trade regimes as measured by … Trade in Services (GATS) in the form of the “GATS Trade Restrictiveness Index” (GTRI) – invite a revisit to the liberalizing … effect of the GATS itself. Contemporary opinion at the end of the Uruguay Round was that the GATS did not achieve much in …

This paper evaluates whether the proposed FTAAP is a desirable policy option for APEC member economies and the world …