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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)
  
  
• 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).
  
  
  

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  Think Tanks and Academia
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• The World Trade Negotiations and Prospects for the Cancun Ministerial, Julian Arkell (May 2003)

• Background Paper on GATS Issues, Julian Arkell (February 2003)

• Facing the Facts: A Guide to the GATS debate, CCPA (2002).

• 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).
  
  

• 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).