general agreement on trade in services meaning

• [Economics]
  = (GATS)

  An international agreement on trade in services, arrived at in 1994 as part of the Uruguay Round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The GATS is very limited in scope: it is a long way from providing for world-wide market access and ‘national’, that is, non-discriminatory treatment for foreign providers of services. Its provisions apply only to services included by members in a positive list: this is around half of all services in high-income countries and a very small proportion elsewhere. Even within these positive lists there are numerous exceptions. As with the GATT, a prolonged series of further negotiations seems likely to be needed before anything approaching free trade in services is achieved.

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• Some safeguard measures can be resorted to in the area of services, as provided for in the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).
• It is particularly concerned about the effect that the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ) could have on transport workers by breaking down national transport regulations.
• "The World Trade Organisation's General Agreement on Trade in Services of July 1995 was a step in the right direction when it comes to opening insurance markets in Asia.
• MALAYSIA has so far made substantial commitments to liberalise the shipping industry under the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ), according to a World Trade Organisation ( WTO ) official.
• In recent years, member states of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) have been debating the application of the General Agreement on Trades in Services ( GATS ) to the field of higher education.
• Because the General Agreement on Trade in Services regulates international marketplaces, in countries where the industrial-medical complex is more strong there can be legal limitations to consumer options for accessing diverse healthcare services.
• The idea of foreign law firms barging into Malaysia is one which the Bar Council has opposed since this possibility came in with the General Agreement on Trade in Services, acceded to by Malaysia in 1995.

• "general agreement on trade in services" meaning in Chinese: 服务贸易总协定
• "general agreement on trade in services" meaning in Japanese: サービスの貿易｛ぼうえき｝に関する一般協定｛いっぱん きょうてい｝◆【略】GATS◆サービス貿易に関する初めての本格...
• "general agreement on trade in services" meaning in Russian: Генеральное соглашение по торговле услугами
• "general agreement on trade in services" meaning in French: accord général sur le commerce des services