WTO Members have more leeway under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) to elude the WTO's basic most favoured nation (MFN) obligation than in merchandise trade under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. In particular, under the Annex on Article II Exemptions, each Member had...

In the formative stages of the GATS many key concepts were directly transferred from the GATT to GATS. The framing of GATS clearly exhibits a certain element of the Most-Favored Nation (MFN) treatment principle descending directly from GATT but also displays striking differences. The framers of...