Description
A comprehensive analysis of GATS that considers its historical context, the national preferences that shaped it, and a path to a GATS 2.0.
The previous two volumes in The Regulation of International Trade analyzed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the first successful agreement to generate multilateral trade liberalization, and the World Trade Organization (WTO), for which the GATT laid the groundwork. In this third volume, Petros Mavroidis turns to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), a WTO treaty that took effect in 1995, and offers a comprehensive analysis that considers the historical context of the GATS, the national preferences that shaped it, and a path to a GATS 2.0.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Abbreviations
Part One The Advent of GATS
Chapter 1: Before the GATS
Chapter 2: Negotiating the GATS
Chapter 3: Property Rights in the GATS
Conclusions to Part One
Part Two The GATS Disciplines and Institutions
Chapter 4: The Integration Model and Design of GATS
Chapter 5: The Scope of GATS
Chapter 6: Domestic Regulation
Chapter 7: Most Favoured Nation (MFN)
Chapter 8: Remaining General Obligations
Chapter 9: Specific Commitments
Chapter 10: Transparency
Chapter 11: Exceptions and Deviations
Conclusions to Part Two
Part Three Sector-Specific Analysis
Chapter 12: Financial Services
Chapter 13: Telecoms
Chapter 14: Transportation
Chapter 15: Labor Mobility
Conclusions to Part Three
Chapter 16: GATS and Beyond
Notes
References
Index
