COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND

TRADE IN SERVICES

International trade in services

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.

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1994 General Agreement on Trade in Services Organization Multilateral Binding Adopted

(b) Improving trade supporting services facilitating trade and exports

Trade in services and development

INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN HEALTH SERVICES

Assessment of trade in services in the GATS negotiations

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, AND COMMODITIES

(b) Improving trade supporting services facilitating trade and exports

MODES OF TRADE IN HEALTH SERVICES

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

Target recipients will be traders and trade supporting service providers.

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

Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities

International trade in goods and services, and commodities

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.

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

Another issue in trade in services related to electronic commerce.

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

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

Trade in health services under this mode includes primarily health services provided to foreign patients however, educational services provided to foreign students can also be considered trade in health services.

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.

Considering telecommunications as an infrastructure service allowing the emergence of trade supporting services, which in turn will enable trade in goods and services has important policy consequences.

Following the GATS services sectoral classification, distribution services include commission agents' services, wholesale trade services, retailing services, and franchising.

Trends in the services trade balance varied.

Item 5 Trade in services and development implications

36. Services Infrastructure for Development and Trade Efficiency.

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,

Expert Meeting on Dynamic

Expert Meeting on Methodologies, Classifications, Quantification

Commission on Trade in Goods and Services,

Commission on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities

and Services, and Commodities