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19 November 2018
The proliferation of regional and bilateral preferential trade agreements has spurred a dynamic evolution of “mode 4” provisions well beyond the standard acquired in the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services. Free trade agreements signed by China and India also cover non highly skilled workers...
23 May 2016
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement was finally signed in February 2016 in Auckland, New Zealand. The negotiations involved only 12 countries, but had to go through many twists and turns because of a crisscross of confrontational relationships — large advanced economies versus emerging...
10 March 2016
India has brought a WTO challenge (DS503) against certain measures involving the US’ non-immigrant temporary working visas, filing a request for consultations on Thursday 3 March. At issue in the complaint are the increased fees imposed on certain applicants for two categories of non-immigrant...
4 November 2015
The first decades of the 21st century marked a moment in time when international trade and investment patterns evolved rapidly, revealing a complex landscape of global production chains. Services play an increasingly important role in this process not only as direct contributors to the value chain...
1 September 2015
Anyone involved with services exports will be well aware of the fact that the elimination of quantitative restrictions and discriminatory measures is a necessary but insufficient condition to secure effective market access. Typically, a foreign supplier will still have to comply with a range of non...
2 August 2015
Eleven WTO members notified the Council for Trade in Services (CTS) the preferential measures that they would offer to services and service providers of least developed countries (LDCs) as part of efforts geared towards the operationalisation of the WTO LDCs “Services Waiver” adopted in 2011...
24 June 2015
When E. M. Forster began writing his novel Howards End in 1909, could he have imagined that the simple phrase “only connect” he uses in the work could have resonance for the burgeoning development in digital trade seen today? Naturally, Forster was writing of something entirely different; the need...
