The WTO Telecom Agreement

The WTO Telecom Agreement

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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The WTO Agreements

The WTO Agreements

Author: World Trade Organization

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-11-16

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 1108423825

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Contains the complete and official texts of the WTO Agreements, collated in one volume.


The WTO Telecom Agreement

The WTO Telecom Agreement

Author: William B. Garrison

Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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Conference report : Washington, D.C., 1997.


WTO - Trade in Services

WTO - Trade in Services

Author: RĂ¼diger Wolfrum

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-02-28

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 904742736X

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With the establishment of the WTO, trade in services became part of the world trade order. Volume 6 is dedicated to these rather recent developments. It covers the core agreement, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) with annexes, as well as the additional instruments , which have been adopted later on to govern the liberalization in specific sectors. Those are the Understanding on Commitments in Financial Services, the Second Protocol on Financial Services, the Third Protocol on the Movement of Natural Persons, the Fourth Protocol on Basic Telecommunications and the Fifth Protocol, which contains further rules for financial services. This volume will be a valuable reference tool for the WTO community as a whole, as well as for professionals and researchers, who deal with one of the sectors concerned, e.g. financial services and telecommunications. Furthermore, it is highly relevant in view of those sectors, which are the subject of ongoing liberalization efforts or earmarked for future negotiations, namely accounting, legal services, transport, tourism, environmental services, legal and educational services.


International Telecommunications Law and Policy

International Telecommunications Law and Policy

Author: Uchenna Jerome Orji

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-01-18

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1527526410

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Since the revolution in modern telecommunications that followed the invention of the telegraph, telecommunication networks have provided channels for the fast delivery of communications across national borders. This transnational nature of telecommunication networks have led to the establishment of international regulatory regimes on the subject. On the other hand, developing countries consider regional economic integration as a major strategy for promoting trade and development, telecommunications have been seen within this context as a strategic tool for facilitating regional economic integration. This has also led to the establishment of regional telecommunication regulatory regimes that aim to promote regional integration and regulatory harmonization. This book discusses telecommunication regimes established by international and regional organizations such as the United Nations, the International Telecommunication Union, the World Trade Organization, the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States, and the Southern African Development Community, among a number of others. It will be relevant to policy makers, regulators, lawyers, law students, investors and telecommunication operators, as well as any person interested in international and African regional telecommunication regimes.


The WTO Agreements on Telecommunications

The WTO Agreements on Telecommunications

Author: Bobjoseph Mathew

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Oxford, Wien. Under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Telecommunications Services, 72 member states have made commitments with regard to the increasing international competition in the telecommunications sector. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the regulatory framework at a multilateral level. It deals with the growing importance and the technological evolution of the telecommunications sector. Furthermore, it describes the negotiations on telecommunications at WTO level. The book gives insights into the provisions of the Annex on Telecommunications and describes their impact on the services industry. Moreover, the commitments relating to basic telecommunications are analyzed. The author specifically examines the reference paper which sets out rules for competition in the telecommunications sector and interprets these provisions in the light of the existing multilateral rules. Contents: WTO/ITU - Annex on Telecommunications - Schedule of Commitments on Basic Telecommunications - Reference Paper - Competition Law - Telecommunications Law.


Trade Governance in the Digital Age

Trade Governance in the Digital Age

Author: Mira Burri

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 110737992X

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The development of new digital technologies has resulted in significant transformations in daily life, from the arrival of online shopping to more fundamental changes in the ways we work and communicate. Many of these changes raise questions that transcend market access and liberalisation, and demand cooperation and coherent regulatory design. International trade regulation has hitherto not reacted in a forward-looking manner to the digital revolution and, particularly at the multilateral level, legal engineering has yielded few tangible results. This book examines whether WTO laws possess the necessary flexibility and resilience to accommodate the changes brought about by burgeoning digital trade. By revealing both the potential and the limitations of the WTO framework, it provides a broad picture of the interaction between digital technologies and trade regulation, links the often disconnected discourses of international trade law, intellectual property and cyberlaw and explores discrete problems in different domains of global trade regulation.


Domestic Regulation and Service Trade Liberalization

Domestic Regulation and Service Trade Liberalization

Author: Pierre Sauve

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2003-08-29

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0821383434

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Trade in services, far more than trade in goods, is affected by a variety of domestic regulations, ranging from qualification and licensing requirements in professional services to pro-competitive regulation in telecommunications services. Experience shows that the quality of regulation strongly influences the consequences of trade liberalization. WTO members have agreed that a central task in the ongoing services negotiations will be to develop a set of rules to ensure that domestic regulations support rather than impede trade liberalization. Since these rules are bound to have a profound impact on the evolution of policy, particularly in developing countries, it is important that they be conducive to economically rational policy-making. This book addresses two central questions: What impact can international trade rules on services have on the exercise of domestic regulatory sovereignty? And how can services negotiations be harnessed to promote and consolidate domestic policy reform across highly diverse sectors? The book, with contributions from several of the world's leading experts in the field, explores a range of rule-making challenges arising at this policy interface, in areas such as transparency, standards and the adoption of a necessity test for services trade. Contributions also provide an in-depth look at these issues in the key areas of accountancy, energy, finance, health, telecommunications and transportation services.


The WTO Agreements

The WTO Agreements

Author: Bhagirath Lal Das

Publisher: Zed Books

Published: 1998-06

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781856495844

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This companion volume to An Introduction to the WTO Agreements looks at how the WTO agreements represent progress over the GATT rules they have replaced. The author also analyses their deficiencies and imbalances from the point of view of the developing countries. And he proposes detailed changes (and strategies) which, in his view, the countries of the South ought now to be putting forward in the next round of negotiations on trade and related issues which have already commenced.