Regulatory barriers to trade in services: A new database and composite indices

Benz, Sebastian; Ferencz, Janos; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik

doi:10.1111/twec.13032

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“…Studies have indicated that there is a robust negative relationship between the STRIs and services exports (Benz et al, 2020). This can be explained by the fact that STRIs capture barriers to competition, and the lack of foreign competition may reduce the incentives of local firms to innovate and expand beyond high-margin, local markets (Rouzet & Spinelli, 2016).…”

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Joint Initiative on Services Domestic Regulation in the WTO: The Case of Russia

Biryukova

2022

Global Policy

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The co-sponsors managed to find an interim exit to revitalise negotiations by signing a joint ministerial statement by proponent members at the 11th WTO Ministerial conference in 2017 and thus gave the green light to negotiators to work on the text.Because consensus decision-making renders it difficult to obtain the support of all 164 WTO members, the co-sponsors of the Initiative are developing rules in the form of a Reference Paper on Services Domestic Regulation (and not in the form of an outstanding agreement). Its incorporation is planned through the modification of the services schedules of participating members.The issue of embedding the text in the WTO law requires careful study and will have a systemic impact on the finalisation of the results of negotiations within the framework of other joint initiatives discussed in the organisation (e-commerce, investment facilitation for development). In fact, the ability to achieve a result on domestic regulation in services is considered in Geneva by experts as a 'test of the viability' of the WTO negotiating function in the context of the multilateral system's crisis.The disciplines do not address issues of market access and national treatment, but are aimed at increasing transparency and reducing the administrative burden on services suppliers. Streamlining domestic regulations in services can facilitate international trade in services and contribute to the recovery of the service sector after the coronavirus pandemic if they are widely and conscientiously implemented. For Russia,

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Joint Initiative on Services Domestic Regulation in the WTO: The Case of Russia

Biryukova

2022

Global Policy

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“…Regulatory barriers, including an absence of mutual recognition of qualifications, limit opportunities for services trade, as does lack of investment in human capital. While governments in developing Asia have progressively opened their economies through bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade agreements, these mostly focused on goods trade, and only later extended the commitments to services trade (Benz, Ferencz, and Nordas 2020). Sectors such as telecommunications or computer services, which underpin digital services trade, remain subject to restrictive regulatory regimes, and in many jurisdictions are becoming subject to stringent data localization requirements (Ferracane and van der Marel 2020; Ferencz 2019) and other barriers to data flows.…”

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Asian Economic Integration Report 2022:

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The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) or its Board of Governors or the governments they represent.ADB does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this publication and accepts no responsibility for any consequence of their use. The mention of specific companies or products of manufacturers does not imply that they

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“…Evidently, the French exception had an effect: Only around 50% of admissions in France are for American film imports, compared to 60% to 90% in other European film markets (GreenAsh, 2017), period of observation not indicated]. Of course, this is not to deny the importance of barriers to trade in services, notably a host of regulations (see Benz et al, 2020) for a recent listing and evidence that they are related to the volume of trade]. However, these regulations may at least to some degree reflect citizens' desire to maintain a country's identity.…”

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Tradability of Services: The Role of Identity Maintenance

Zweifel¹

2021

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This contribution is motivated by two observations that do not seem to have been seen in conjunction up to now. On the one hand, when the "French exception" was inserted in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), this was motivated by the fear that imports especially of cultural services would undermine a country's identity. On the other hand, while services presently account for up to 70% of the GDP of major industrial countries, their imports of services lag far behind with less than 20% of total imports. This raises the question of whether the desire to maintain a country's identity might exert a limiting influence on the trade in services. The analysis combines Lancaster's new theory of demand with (relative rather than absolute) identity maintenance (RIM) to derive a set of acceptable outcomes of service production in characteristics space. For trade in services to occur, the sets of trading countries need to overlap, resulting in three testable predictions: 1) The more stringent the countries' RIM, the smaller the volume of services trade between them; 2) In the presence of RIM, the volume of trade in services increases with the similarity of the countries' preference structures; and 3) in the presence of RIM, the volume of trade in services is the lower, the greater the difference in countries' incomes. While current evidence supports these predictions, it needs to be completed when more data on bilateral trade flows in services become available.

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Regulatory barriers to trade in services: A new database and composite indices

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Joint Initiative on Services Domestic Regulation in the WTO: The Case of Russia

Joint Initiative on Services Domestic Regulation in the WTO: The Case of Russia

Asian Economic Integration Report 2022:

Tradability of Services: The Role of Identity Maintenance

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