WTO | Services: legal services

The current negotiations back to top

Legal services are included in the new services negotiations, which began January 2000.

Proposals on legal services
Proposals for legal is also mentioned in professional services and business services

Principles of trade in legal services are contained, like for all services, in the GATS.

Current commitments and exemptions back to top

> All commitments and MFN exemptions. Search for legal services in the commitments for services by country.

For consolidated information on countries' commitments and exemptions on legal services go to the services database (opens a new window) click “predefined reports”, then click “All sectors and each level of development”. From the list of sectors select “Legal services”. Information is broken down by the country's level of development (developed, developing, least developed or transition). Data covers the period January 1995 to December 1999. Does not include data on current negotiations or on countries which joined the WTO since January 2000.

Documents on legal services back to top

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Background paper on legal services (Document code S/* and keyword “legal”) > search > help

You can perform more sophisticated searches from the Documents Online search facility (opens in new window) by defining multiple search criteria such as document symbol (i.e. code number), full text search or document date.