These are followed by textiles and clothing, the segment which has been creating tensions among trading partners following the phasing out of the ATC in the WTO but where retail margins remain notably strong at 70 per cent.

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND

TRADE IN SERVICES

International trade in services

(b) Improving trade supporting services facilitating trade and exports

Assessment of trade in services in the GATS negotiations

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) provides a unique multilateral legal framework for trade in services and for negotiations on their further liberalization.

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, AND COMMODITIES

(b) Improving trade supporting services facilitating trade and exports

III. Trade in services 27 45

1994 General Agreement on Trade in Services Organization Multilateral Binding Adopted

Trade in services and development

INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN HEALTH SERVICES

The favoured sectors, such as clothing and electronics, included some of the most dynamic parts of the trading system.

Target recipients will be traders and trade supporting service providers.

MODES OF TRADE IN HEALTH SERVICES

Technical assistance was also provided from databases in trade in goods and services trade in services competition policies trade and environment and investment regimes.

Mr. Hamid Mamdouh, Director, Trade in Services, WTO

A survey carried out in 1996 with the majority of operational Trade Points demonstrated that those Trade Points which use the Internet more actively to promote their services or their clients services also facilitate a higher number of trade transactions per month and offer a broader range of trade facilitation services than other Trade Points.

36. The provisions of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) were expected to provide grounds for liberalization of trade in services such that growth would be further enhanced.

There is trade, there is disarmament, there is cross border relations.

The last years have seen a growth of RTAs covering services trade.

MAST may contribute to increased transparency in the trade regime for services.

Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities

International trade in goods and services, and commodities

Expanded the textile and garment industry through negotiations of exports and trade agreements with countries in North America and Europe

Another issue in trade in services related to electronic commerce.

Furthermore, the Commission should secure its mandate on such important issues as integrating trade, environment and development trade in services improvement of trade preferences and identification of obstacles and barriers to trade.

The situation is similar in trade in services.

Gender equality and international trade in services

Women's participation in trade in services has also been growing.

Modes of Trade in Health Services23 80

32. International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities.

Most tea is traded internationally in bulk.

For the period 2000 2003, trade in services represented 16 per cent of the total trade of developing countries, expanding at the same pace as their trade in goods.

The trading structure has implications for the trade efficiency of the country in that it will impact on the availability and accessibility of trade related services.

Such policies should take into account the costs that they impose on international trade in services in general and on developing countries in particular.

Service Module 3 Industrial competitiveness and trade

Mr. Julian Arkell, International Trade and Services Policy

As trade in services (and, in particular, information intensive services) increases, and as trade in both goods and services becomes itself more dependent on international information flows, telecommunications play an increasingly important role in the process of globalization of international trade.

The expiry of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing on 1 January 2005 brought to an end the discriminatory trade regime that for over 40 years had governed and restrained textiles and clothing exports from developing countries.

10A.7 With respect to international trade in goods and services, and commodities, UNCTAD witnessed an increased demand for advisory services and training programmes from countries in the process of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

MESSAGE FROM UNCTAD S COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES,

The GATS proposals on energy services classification capture services such as wholesale trade services, retailing services and storage services they refer to sales of fuels and wholesale brokerage (CPC 62113) wholesale trade services of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (CPC 62271) and retailing services of fuel oil, bottled gas, coal, and woods (CPC 63297).

B. Database on Measures Affecting Service Trade (MAST)