Trade in Services : The Doha Development Agenda Negotiations and U.S Goals / William H. Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, William H., author.

Series:

CRS report for Congress, RL33085

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (30 pages).

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 2011.

Summary:

The United States and the other 153 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been conducting a set or 'round' of negotiations called the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) since the end of 2001. The DDA's main objective is to refine and expand the rules by which WTO members conduct foreign trade with one another. A critical element of the DDA round is the negotiations pertaining to foreign trade in services. Trade in services has been covered under multilateral rules only since 1995 with the entry into force of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and of the Uruguay Round Agreements creating the WTO. The negotiations on services in the DDA round have two fundamental objectives. On objective is to reform the current GATS rules and principles. The second objective is for each member country to open more of its service sectors to foreign competition.

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