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Most existing commitments are confined to guaranteeing the levels of access
that existed in the mid-1990s, when the Agreement entered into force, in a
limited number of sectors. The only significant exceptions are the accession
schedules of recent WTO Members and the negotiating results in two sectors (financial
services and, in particular, basic telecommunications) that were achieved
after the Uruguay Round. The offers tabled so far in the ongoing Round would
not add a lot of substance either. Apparently, negotiators are ‘caught
between a rock and a hard place’. For one thing, the traditional
mercantilist paradigm, relying on reciprocal exchanges of concessions, seems
to be provide less momentum than in the goods area. For another, there are
additional — technical, economic and political — frictions that tend to
render services negotiations more complicated, time-consuming and resource-intensive.
The novelty of the Agreement adds an additional element of legal uncertainty
from a negotiator’s perspective. This paper discusses various options that
might help to overcome the ensuing reticence to engage. Few appear within
reach at present, however. The bare minimum that would need to be achieved
is to revive work on scheduling and classification issues with a view to
putting both existing commitments and new offers on a safer footing, and to
improve compliance with long-existing information/notification obligations.
Nº: ERSD-2009-05
Autores:
Rudolf Adlung — OMC
Fecha de redacción:
febrero de 2009
Palabras clave:
GATS, trade in services, liberalization, policy
reform
Código JEL:
F13, F15, F53, F59
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