Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- Glossary
- Part I Introduction
- Part II The past: origins of the TPP Agreement
- Part III The present: twenty-first century elements and obstacles
- 6 Negotiations over market access in goods
- 7 TPP negotiations
- 8 Trade in services
- 9 TPP Agreement
- 10 The intellectual property chapter in the TPP
- 11 Regulatory coherence in the TPP talks
- 12 Environmental issues in the TPP
- 13 Labour standards and the TPP
- 14 What is to be done with export restrictions?
- Part IV The future: high-quality meets regional and global realities
- Part V The TPP negotiations: the quest for quality
- Index
- References
8 - Trade in services
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- Glossary
- Part I Introduction
- Part II The past: origins of the TPP Agreement
- Part III The present: twenty-first century elements and obstacles
- 6 Negotiations over market access in goods
- 7 TPP negotiations
- 8 Trade in services
- 9 TPP Agreement
- 10 The intellectual property chapter in the TPP
- 11 Regulatory coherence in the TPP talks
- 12 Environmental issues in the TPP
- 13 Labour standards and the TPP
- 14 What is to be done with export restrictions?
- Part IV The future: high-quality meets regional and global realities
- Part V The TPP negotiations: the quest for quality
- Index
- References
Summary
The services chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) overlaps, or should be viewed in tandem with, several other chapters in the proposed agreement (e.g. the chapters on investment, financial services, telecommunications, e-commerce, regulatory coherence and business mobility). Supply chain connectivity is another closely related area of the negotiations. We do not confine our analysis and comments here strictly to the specifics of the services chapter on its own, but try to take a holistic view of what the TPP means for international trade in services.
Any attempt to understand what the TPP means for trade in services – and whether it facilitates development of a framework which will encourage international trade – involves an understanding of the setting against which the negotiations have taken place. For complex reasons, the immediate backdrop is that over ten years of services negotiations in the WTO have yet to produce conclusive results. Existing General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) commitments date from the Uruguay Round, since then there has been much autonomous liberalization, but little of this has been captured to date in the WTO. Offers in the Doha Round have fallen well short of initial expectations. Similarly, efforts in the WTO to improve GATS rules and disciplines have made limited, or in some cases no, progress.
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- The Trans-Pacific PartnershipA Quest for a Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement, pp. 133 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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