The Research on the GATS-Minus Characteristic under the Framework of the Regional Service Agreements

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10.2991/icetms.2013.368How to use a DOI?

Keywords

RTAs,trade in services, GATS-

Abstract

Recently the regional service trade liberalization is expanding rapidly. In the wake of the ‘GATS+’ trend showing in the regional trade agreements (RTAs), GATS-Minus (GATS–) characteristics has been found obviously in part of these RTAs. This paper showed that GATS-minus commitments is concentrated to some specific service sectors (such as finance, communication, business and transportation services) and supply modes (mainly mode 3 and mode 4). The typical GATS minus commitments are as follows: (1) imposing more restriction measures on the original market access and national treatment commitments; (2)seeking more exemption and exclusion on the subsidy related obligations ; (3) reducing the sector coverage of the GATS commitment.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nian-li Zhou
AU  - Miao-miao Zhang
PY  - 2013/06
DA  - 2013/06
TI  - The Research on the GATS-Minus Characteristic under the Framework of the Regional Service Agreements
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Education Technology and Management Science (ICETMS 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1374
EP  - 1377
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icetms.2013.368
DO  - 10.2991/icetms.2013.368
ID  - Zhou2013/06
ER  -