Recent Preferential Trade Agreements’ Disciplines for Tackling Regulatory Divergence in Services: How Far beyond GATS?

Gari, Gabriel

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“…But to ensure conditions for the effective market integration of services it is also necessary to address the trade costs stemming from 'pure' regulatory heterogeneity of services regulations, i.e. differences in non-discriminatory regulations that are not in any way attributable to protectionist or anti-competitive goal (Gari, 2020b). Hence, in addition to the request of sector specific market access concessions, Uruguay should spend considerable efforts on the negotiation of an institutional framework for regulatory cooperation.…”

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Negotiating Trade in Services with China from the Uruguayan Perspective

Bartesaghi

Gari

Melgar

2021

LAJTP

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We focus on trade in services, and we aim at assessing the concessions made by China when negotiating trade agreements. Additionally, we shed light on the opportunities that Uruguay may have in exporting services to China in case of signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The debate on this issue started in 2016 when Uruguayan President Vázquez visited China and with Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the possibility of signing a FTA. Since then, opposing arguments have been put forward. Unfortunately, the lack of bilateral information on trade in services is a limitation for this kind of studies. It is highlighted that there will be additional large gains which would emerge from trade in goods, cooperation or investments.

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Negotiating Trade in Services with China from the Uruguayan Perspective

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Gari

Melgar

2021

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“…To address this challenge, service sector reforms should go beyond trade openness by focusing on the simplification, harmonisation, approximation or mutual recognition of domestic regulations. (Gari, 2018;Polanco Lazo and Sauvé, 2017).…”

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Aid, Trade and Development Indicators for Ecuador

2019

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Economic diversification and empowerment are essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Both objectives also embody the rationale behind the Aid for Trade Initiative. Economic diversification offers a pathway for empowerment, while empowement allows women, youth and micro, small and medium sized enterprises to engage in trade. Growth in agriculture, manufacture and services offers entrepreneurial opportunities and generates productive jobs. In turn, this economic diversification contributes to rising incomes and human development more generally. We have seen this pattern of progress in many developing countries bringing substantive reductions in extreme poverty.However, the pace of economic diversification is uneven and the pattern evolving, while some economies face inherent challenges. This is especially true for small, island, landlocked or resource dependent countries and those that are affected by fragility and conflict. At the same time, rapid technological progress threatens to disrupt established pathways for economic development, but also offers new growth and development opportunities. Elevated environmental risks require new approaches to economic diversification.International trade can help. An open, rules based trading system contributes to global welfare. It helps diffuse goods and services, and also the technology and knowledge to manage environmental challenges. But turning trade opportunities into trade flows, requires us to redouble our efforts to tackle the numerous supply side constraints that many developing countries are still facing, particularly the least-developed countries.Much is already happening. Since the Aid for Trade Initative started in 2006, USD 409 billion in official development assistance and USD 346 billion in low concessional loans has been disbursed to help developing countries build their trade capacities. Almost another USD 100 billion in both flows combined is committed in 2017. In addition, South-South providers contributed USD 9 billion and foundation USD 100 million. AID FOR TRADE FACTS AND FIGURES Export diversificationSource: WTO Database Progress in economic and export diversification is not uniform nor universal. According to the OECD-WTO Monitoring and Evaluation Exercise 2019, 53 per cent of developing countries reported progress in economic diversification since the launch of the Aid for Trade initiative in 2006 -66 per cent for LDCs. Services is the sector with the second-most progress after agriculture, as reported by 33 per cent of developing countries.

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“…The analysis in this Section builds upon work on preferential trade agreements (PTAs) undertaken by Gabriel Gari(Gari, 2020) and the World Bank(Gootiiz, et al, 2020), the latter being available at https://datatopics.worldbank.org/dta/table.html.…”

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Services Domestic Regulation

2021

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Services is the fastest-growing sector of today's global economy and trade in services is the most dynamic segment of world trade. However, its potential remains constrained by a variety of barriers: trade costs are estimated to be almost double those in goods, and more than 40% of trade costs are accounted for by regulation-related factors. Regulatory measures related to the permission to supply a service, i.e. those related to licensing and qualifications requirements and procedures, and technical standards, can particularly affect service suppliers' ability to trade. With a view to mitigating the unintended trade-restrictive effects of such measures, since 2017, a group of Members has been negotiating a set of regulatory disciplines in the context of the Joint Initiative on Services Domestic Regulation.

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Recent Preferential Trade Agreements’ Disciplines for Tackling Regulatory Divergence in Services: How Far beyond GATS?

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Negotiating Trade in Services with China from the Uruguayan Perspective

Negotiating Trade in Services with China from the Uruguayan Perspective

Aid, Trade and Development Indicators for Ecuador

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