Week 24/25: Trade in Services

This course explores the law, economics and policy of trade in services. Emphasis is placed on the concept of trade in services, the structure of the GATS, current negotiations, the scheduling of commitments and specific sectors such as financial services. This course also comprises a detailed exploration of WTO jurisprudence in services trade and includes discussions of the relationship between public services. It also explores the interests of developing countries in the context of services liberalization, with particular attention paid to the issue of labour mobility (so-called Mode 4 trade). This course will prove of particular interest to service providers, government officials, staff members of international organizations and non-governmental organizations concerned by service sector regulation.

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25 February 2010
• To appreciate the conceptual complexities of liberalisation of trade in services
• To gain a keener understanding of how the economic characteristics of services transactions have shaped the law of services trade.
• To understand patterns of liberalisation in services trade to date and their key determinants
• To understand the general structure of the treatment of services in WTO law

26 February 2010
• To determine the level of liberalisation of a country by reading a schedule
• To understand the role that sectoral annexes play in services trade regulation, with particular emphasis on the treatment of financial services and telecommunications
• To understand the challenges of Mode 4 trade in services (labour mobility)

1-3 March 2009
• To grasp the broadness of the scope of the GATS
• To be able to interpret and apply the key terms of Articles II, XVI, XVII and XIV GATS in light of the relevant case law
• To assess the impact of the obligations of market access (Art. XVI) and national treatment (Art. XVII GATS) on trade liberalisation and domestic regulatory autonomy
• To consider the potential and limitations of Article XIV GATS to provide a balance between trade liberalisation and regulation
• To explore the relationship between domestic regulation and services trade, and prospects for new disciplines on non-discriminatory regulatory conduct
• To understand the evolving jurisprudence in services trade at the WTO level
• To analyse and critically assess the key GATS cases

4 March 2010
• Understanding the law and economics of preferential approaches to services liberalizations and the emerging lessons from the practice of PTAs covering services.
• Exploring some of the key lessons of a political economy nature emerging from the first two decades of rule-making and market-opening in services trade.
• Assessing future prospects for services trade liberalization and the challenges that negotiators must address and overcome to reap the full benefits of service sector reforms.

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Sprache

Englisch

Kontakt

Name

Amir Fouad

Zuständigkeit

MILE Fellow

Telefon

+41 31 631 36 28

E-Mail

amir.fouad@wti.org
stefanie.allemann@wti.org

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