Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; PART 1 Introduction; PART 2 Horizontal Perspectives; PART 3 Sectoral Perspectives; PART 4 Looking Ahead: The Gats Work Program; Authors and Their Affiliations; Index; Back Cover
Summary
Trade in services, far more than trade in goods, is affected by a variety of domestic regulations, ranging from qualification and licensing requirements in professional services to pro-competitive regulation in telecommunications services. Experience shows that the quality of regulation strongly influences the consequences of trade liberalization. WTO members have agreed that a central task in the ongoing services negotiations will be to develop a set of rules to ensure that domestic regulations support rather than impede trade liberalization. Since these rules are bound to have a profound imp
