Outline of GATS

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Learning Objectives

This chapter is to help students understand:
  1. 1.

    Importance of trade in services for WTO member countries;

     
  2. 2.

    Importance of regulations on trade in services compared with those for trade in goods;

     
  3. 3.

    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;

     
  4. 4.

    Legal characteristics of GATS compared with GATT;

     
  5. 5.

    Definition of service in trade by the supplying modes;

     
  6. 6.

    Extremely wide scope of application of GATS compared with GATT.

     

Keywords

Supra Note National Treatment Uruguay Round Service Trade Vienna Convention 
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Division of International TradePusan National UniversityPusanRepublic of South Korea

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