Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Disclaimer
- Summary and overview
- PART I From Policy to Negotiations
- PART II Multilateral and Bilateral Negotiations on Services: Overall Perspectives
- PART III Challenges, Issues and Opportunities in Services Sectors
- PART IV Country Experiences with Services Trade
- 14 GATS plus or minus? Services commitments in comparative contexts for Colombia and Uruguay
- 15 Opening services markets at the regional level under the CAFTA-DR: the cases of Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic
- 16 Why isn't South Africa more proactive in international services negotiations?
- 17 Services liberalization in PTAs and the WTO: the experiences of India and Singapore
- 18 The domestic dynamics of preferential services liberalization: the experience of Australia and Thailand
- 19 The Chilean experience in services negotiations
- Appendix: A reader's guide to basic GATS concepts and negotiations
- Index
- References
19 - The Chilean experience in services negotiations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Disclaimer
- Summary and overview
- PART I From Policy to Negotiations
- PART II Multilateral and Bilateral Negotiations on Services: Overall Perspectives
- PART III Challenges, Issues and Opportunities in Services Sectors
- PART IV Country Experiences with Services Trade
- 14 GATS plus or minus? Services commitments in comparative contexts for Colombia and Uruguay
- 15 Opening services markets at the regional level under the CAFTA-DR: the cases of Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic
- 16 Why isn't South Africa more proactive in international services negotiations?
- 17 Services liberalization in PTAs and the WTO: the experiences of India and Singapore
- 18 The domestic dynamics of preferential services liberalization: the experience of Australia and Thailand
- 19 The Chilean experience in services negotiations
- Appendix: A reader's guide to basic GATS concepts and negotiations
- Index
- References
Summary
Trade in services was brought into the world negotiating agenda in the early 1990s. Since the entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 and the World Trade Organization in 1995, countries have engaged in active negotiations in this area, both regionally and bilaterally. Latin American countries have been particularly active in this process, having negotiated 20 percent of PTAs covering trade in goods and 47 percent of those dealing with trade in services that have been notified to the WTO. Chile and Mexico stand out, having notified to the WTO ten and nine agreements covering trade in services, respectively.
Although the economic literature has addressed trade agreements in goods extensively, both theoretically and empirically, less attention has been devoted to the economic effects of trade agreements in services. In recent years, new research has emerged regarding the increasing number of PTAs covering trade in services. Their main focus has been the study of the content and structure of services chapters of PTAs, the relationship between PTAs and Article V of the GATS, and an assessment of the extent to which preferential agreements have been more effective in promoting liberalization than the WTO (Fink and Molinuevo, 2007; Roy, Marchetti, and Lim, 2007; Marconini, 2006; Sáez, 2005c; OECD, 2002; Stephenson, 2002; Mattoo and Fink, 2002; Prieto and Stephenson, 1999).
Chile's experience with services negotiations is extensive. For more than a decade Chile has been negotiating services obligations as part of its free trade agreements.
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- Opening Markets for Trade in ServicesCountries and Sectors in Bilateral and WTO Negotiations, pp. 667 - 705Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009