Useful
Resources on Services Trade
WTO
| Other International Organisations | Think
Tanks and Academia
WTO
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- "Necessity
Test" in the WTO, (2 December 2003)
- Modalities
for the Special Treatment of LDCs (3 September 2003)
- Draft
Cancun Ministerial Declaration (24 August 2003)
- Report
by the Chairman of the CTS Special Session to the TNC (11 July 2003)
- Report
of the Chair of the WPGR on Negotiations on Subsidies ( 30 June
2003)
- Report
of the Chair of the WPGR on Negotiations on Government Procurement
( 30 June 2003)
- Report
of the Chair of the WPGR on ESM Negotiations (14 March 2003)
- Proposal
for Disciplines on Licensing Procedures, by the EU (10 July 2003)
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Draft Annex on Domestic Regulation, by Japan (2 May 2003) Attention:
very large file (6 MB)!!
- Initial Offers on Services submitted to the Council on Trade in
Services: US,
Canada, Japan,
Australia,
New
Zealand, Switzerland,
EC,
Argentina,
Paraguay,
Uruguay,
Norway,
Brazil
- Updated
Checklist on Subsidies (17 March 2003), by Thomas Chan, Chair of
the GATS Working Party for GATS Rules.
- Draft
modalities for treatment of autonomous liberalisation, by Ambassador
Jara, Chair of the Council for Trade in Services (25 February 2003).
- GATS
- Fact and Fiction (2001).
- Manual
on Statistics of Interational Trade in Services, UN, EC, IMF, OECD,
UNCTAD, WTO (2002).
- WTO
General Agreement on Trade in Services.
- Guidelines
and Procedures for the Negotiations on Trade in Services (29 March
2001).
Other
International Organisations
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- ASEAN
proposal on establishing an ESM in services (February 2004).
- UNCTAD
Learning Module: Dispute Settlement: WTO - GATS
- International
Trade in Services in Selected ASEAN Countries: Telecommunications and
Finance,
ASEAN (2002).
- Second
Draft Agreement, Chapter on Services, FTAA - Free Trade Area of
the Americas.
- GATS:
The Case for Open Services Markets, OECD (2002).
- Trade
in Services: Negotiating Issues and Approaches, OECD (2001).
- Trade
in Health Services: Global Regional and Country Perspectives, Pan-American
Health Organisation (2002).
- Assessment
of Trade in Services in the Context of the GATS 2000 Negotiations,
South Centre (December 2002).
- GATS
2000 Negotiations: Options for Developing Countries, South Cente
(December 2000).
- Liberalisation
of Trade in Services and Human Rights, UNHCHR (June 2002).
- Dispute
Settlement: WTO - GATS, UNCTAD (June 2003)
- Trade
in Services and Development Implications, UNCTAD (20 December 2002).
- Measuring
Services Trade Liberalisation and Its Impact on Economic Growth: An
Illustration, World Bank (August 2001).
- Shaping
Future GATS Rules for Trade in Services, World Bank (2000).
- International Trade
in Health Services: A Development Perspective, Part
I & Part
II, WHO/UNCTAD (1998).
Think
Tanks and Academia
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The
World Trade Negotiations and Prospects for the Cancun Ministerial,
Julian Arkell (May 2003)
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Background
Paper on GATS Issues, Julian Arkell (February 2003)
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Facing
the Facts: A Guide to the GATS debate, CCPA (2002).
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Public
Services and the Scope of the General Agreement on Trade in Services
(GATS), CIEL (2001).
- Assessment
of Trade in Services in the context of the Current GATS Negotiations
in the WTO, CIEL (2001).
- Primer
on the General Agreement on Trade in Services, FOEI (2002).
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The
Wrong Model: GATS, Trade Liberalisation and Children's Right to Health,
Safe the Children (2001).
- Out
of Service - The Development Dangers of the General Agreement on Trade
in Services (GATS), WDM (2002).
- GATS:
A Disservice to the Poor, WDM (2002).
- Preliminary
Assessment of the Environmental & Social Effects of Trade in Tourism,
WWF International (2001).
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