GATS and the Regulation of International

This collection of essays takes stock of the key challenges that have arisen since the entry into force of the General Agreement on Trade in Services in the mid-1990s and situates them in the context of the WTO's Doha Development Agenda and the proliferation of preferential agreements addressing services today. The multidisciplinary approach provides an opportunity for many of the world's leading experts and a number of new analytical voices to exchange ideas on the future of services trade and regulation. Cosmopolitan approaches to the treatment of labour mobility, the shape of services trade disciplines in the digital age and pro-competitive regulation in air transport are explored with a view to helping readers gain a better understanding of the forces shaping the changes. An essential read for all those concerned with the evolution of the rules-based trading system and its impact on the service economy.

Contributors	p. ix
List of figures	p. xii
List of tables	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Beyond regulatory control and multilateral flexibility: Gains from a cosmopolitan Gats	p. 1
Testing regulatory autonomy, disciplining trade relief and regulating variable peripheries: Can a cosmopolitan Gats do it all?	p. 3
Unexplored economic, political and judicial dimensions of GATS	p. 21
South-South services trade	p. 23
The race towards preferential trade agreements in services: How much market access is really achieved?	p. 77
Rules of origin in services: A case study of five ASEAN countries	p. 111
Comment: Is services trade like or unlike manufacturing trade?	p. 139
The limits of request-offer negotiations: Plurilateral and alternative approaches to services liberalization	p. 143
Services post-Hong Kong - initial experiences with plurilaterals	p. 145
Negotiating approaches from a Member's perspective	p. 172
Evaluating alternative approaches to GATS negotiations: Sectoral, formulae and others	p. 183
Trade liberalisation under the Gats: An odyssey?	p. 209
Gats case law: A first assessment	p. 223
Lessons learned from litigating GATS disputes: Mexico - Telecoms	p. 225
From Periodicals to Gambling: A review of systemic issues addressed by WTO adjudicatory bodies under the GATS	p. 236
Specificities of WTO dispute settlement in services cases	p. 276
Can foreign investors in services benefit from WTO dispute settlement? Legal standing and remedies in WTO and international arbitration	p. 296
Market access, national treatment and domestic regulation	p. 325
Some thoughts on the concept of 'likeness' in the GATS	p. 327
Comment: The unbearable lightness of likeness	p. 358
Towards a horizontal necessity test for services: Completing the GATS Article VI:4 mandate	p. 370
Comment: Quis custodiet necessitatem? Adjudicating necessity in multilevel systems and the importance of judicial dialogue	p. 397
Unfinished business: Safeguard and subsidy disciplines for services	p. 405
Recognition, standardisation and harmonisation: Which rules for GATS in times of crisis?	p. 407
A safeguards regime for services	p. 434
Waiting for Godot: Subsidy disciplines in services trade	p. 466
Comment: One set of rules for fair and unfair trade in services: A possible merger?	p. 489
Challenges to the scope of GATS and cosmopolitan governance in services trade	p. 495
Trade rules for the digital age	p. 497
Comment: Digital trade: Technology versus legislators	p. 530
How human rights violations nullify and impair GATS commitments	p. 534
Comment: The instrumental rationale for protecting human rights in the context of trade services reform	p. 561
In pursuit of the cosmopolitan vocation for trade: GATS and aviation services	p. 566
Conclusion	p. 597
Been there, not yet done that: Lessons and challenges in services trade	p. 599
Index	p. 632
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