Learning Objectives
This chapter is to help students understand:
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Importance of trade in services for WTO member countries;
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Importance of regulations on trade in services compared with those for trade in goods;
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Distinctions between regulation on trade barriers to distort competition or restrict market access and regulation on requirements from the legitimate policy objectives to be pursued by the government;
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Legal characteristics of GATS compared with GATT;
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Definition of service in trade by the supplying modes;
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Extremely wide scope of application of GATS compared with GATT.
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Lee, E.S. (2012). Outline of GATS. In: World Trade Regulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31143-7_6
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