Services in Doha: What's on the Table?

Services trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge because of the opaqueness of services policies and the opaqueness of the request-offer negotiating process. This paper attempts to assess what is on the table. It presents the results of the first survey of app...

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Main Authors:	Gootiiz, Batshur, Mattoo, Aaditya
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 International Law K330 Industry Studies: Services: General L800
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5792

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spelling	okr-10986-57922021-04-23T14:02:23Z Services in Doha: What's on the Table? Gootiiz, Batshur Mattoo, Aaditya Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 International Law K330 Industry Studies: Services: General L800 Services trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge because of the opaqueness of services policies and the opaqueness of the request-offer negotiating process. This paper attempts to assess what is on the table. It presents the results of the first survey of applied trade policies in the major services sectors of fifty-six industrial and developing countries. These policies are then compared with these countries' Uruguay Round (UR) commitments in services and the best offers that they have made in the current Doha negotiations. The paper finds that at this stage, Doha promises greater security of access to markets but not any additional liberalization. Uruguay Round commitments are on average 2.3 times more restrictive than current policies. The best offers submitted so far as part of the Doha negotiations improve on Uruguay Round commitments by about 13% but remain on average 1.9 times more restrictive than actual policies. The World Trade Organization's (WTO's) Hong Kong Ministerial had set out ambitious goals for services, but the analysis here shows that much remains to be done to achieve them. 2012-03-30T07:34:34Z 2012-03-30T07:34:34Z 2009 Journal Article Journal of World Trade 10116702 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5792 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Uruguay
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description	Services trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge because of the opaqueness of services policies and the opaqueness of the request-offer negotiating process. This paper attempts to assess what is on the table. It presents the results of the first survey of applied trade policies in the major services sectors of fifty-six industrial and developing countries. These policies are then compared with these countries' Uruguay Round (UR) commitments in services and the best offers that they have made in the current Doha negotiations. The paper finds that at this stage, Doha promises greater security of access to markets but not any additional liberalization. Uruguay Round commitments are on average 2.3 times more restrictive than current policies. The best offers submitted so far as part of the Doha negotiations improve on Uruguay Round commitments by about 13% but remain on average 1.9 times more restrictive than actual policies. The World Trade Organization's (WTO's) Hong Kong Ministerial had set out ambitious goals for services, but the analysis here shows that much remains to be done to achieve them.
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title	Services in Doha: What's on the Table?
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Services in Doha: What's on the Table?

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