COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND

TRADE IN SERVICES

(b) Improving trade supporting services facilitating trade and exports

International trade in services

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, AND COMMODITIES

(b) Improving trade supporting services facilitating trade and exports

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.

UNCITRAL has contented itself with international contractual obligations, so that the part concerning contractual obligations can be completed as a first step.

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Trade and finance matters

26. He felt that the separation of quot strengthening trade supporting services quot and quot trade efficiency measures quot in section I.B of the report was in contradiction with efforts to improve trade supporting services where integration of trade efficiency and Trade Point efforts was of marked importance.

The representative of the International Trade Centre (ITC) said that its mandate was primarily trade promotion and business development.

It was up to States to invoke such resolutions in the context of their international obligations trade negotiators and ministers should be made aware of human rights obligations and take them into account during trade negotiations.

Any future arrangement should not conflict with the obligations of the World Trade Organization but should rather assist it in building consensus on forest related aspects of trade and environmental policies.

1994 General Agreement on Trade in Services Organization Multilateral Binding Adopted

Trade in services and development

INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN HEALTH SERVICES

Target recipients will be traders and trade supporting service providers.

Defined as such, the quot Trade Point quot product is clearly differentiated from trade information systems.

Structural business and trade statistics.

MODES OF TRADE IN HEALTH SERVICES

Contribute to the expansion of world trade on a multilateral, non discriminatory basis, in accordance with international obligations.

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

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.

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

(c) Small and medium sized enterprise trade competitiveness the training of operational staff for Trade Points, as well as Trade Point managers and users

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

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.

Assessment of trade in services in the GATS negotiations

(h) Urge States to eliminate obstacles that are not consistent with their obligations to the World Trade Organization, taking into account the importance of the trade of fishery products, particularly for developing countries.

UNCTAD apos s new mandate was in response to emerging transport and trade patterns indicating increased regional trade.

Another issue in trade in services related to electronic commerce.

Protectionist measures were unacceptable, whether in the guise of subsidies, environmental protection, labour rights or sanitary standards.

Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities

International trade in goods and services, and commodities

Both sides decided to consider the possibility of increasing coastal trade and expressed their will to further liberalize their trade relations in accordance with their respective obligations towards third countries as well as their international commitments.

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.

13.18 ITC deals specifically with the operational aspects of trade development.

The issue is not free trade versus protectionism, but smart trade versus polarizing trade. Smart trade creates balanced development, while polarizing trade rewards a small circle of winners at the expense of the many.

International Trade Administration, US Department of Commerce, 2000.

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.

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