Domestic Regulation and Service Trade

This book addresses two key questions: What impact can international trade rules on services have on the design and pursuit of domestic regulatory decisions? How can such negotiations be harnessed to promote and consolidate domestic policy reform? This timely volume offers contributions from many of the world's leading experts on trade on services.

PART I INTRODUCTION

1. Domestic Regulation and Trade in Services: Key Issues

1

(6)

Aaditya Matton

Pierre Sauvé

PART II HORIZONTAL PERSPECTIVES

2. Transparency in Domestic Regulation: Practices and Possibilities

7

(20)

Keiya Iida

Julia Nielson

3. Addressing Regulatory Divergence through International Standards: Financial Services

27

(16)

Joel P. Trachtman

4. Regulatory Discrimination in Domestic United States Law: A Model for the GATS?

43

(14)

David W. Leebron

5. Lessons for the GATS from Existing WTO Rules on Domestic Regulation

57

(26)

Joel P. Trachtman

PART III SECTORAL PERSPECTIVES

6. Domestic Regulation and Trade in Telecommunications Services: Experience and Prospects under the GATS

83

(26)

Daniel Roseman

7. GATS Regulatory Disciplines Meet Global Public Goods: The Case of Transportation Services

109

(20)

Richard Janda

8. Regulatory Reform and Trade Liberalization in Financial Services

129

(18)

Stijn Claessens

9. Regulatory Reform and Trade Liberalization in Accountancy Services

147

(20)

Claude Trolliet

John Hegarty

10. Strengthening WTO Member Commitments in Energy Services: Problems and Prospects

167

(24)

Peter C. Evans

11. Regulation of Health Services and International Trade Law

191

(30)

David Luff

PART IV LOOKING AHEAD: THE GATS WORK PROGRAM

12. Domestic Regulation and Trade in Services: Looking Ahead

221

(10)

Aaditya Matton

Pierre Sauvé

Authors and Their Affiliations

231

(2)

Index

233

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