ISDS Case Map
services
Sri Lanka and India will hold another round of trade talks in Colombo next week on liberalizing professional services, investments and trade in goods.
A report on the services sector released on Monday, revealed that computer-related and environmental services have high export potential, while communication, road transportation and tourism-related services are best reserved for domestic supply.
In excluding water from GATS but not from the Australia-US FTA, we have simply swapped one lot of water lords for another.
China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed on Sunday in Cebu an agreement on Trade in Services of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area.
Despite the government yesterday ruling out the possibility of opening the Oriental medicine market in ongoing free trade talks with the United States, Korea's doctors are still planning to stage protests.
The service sector will be included in the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and the East and Southern African (ESA) countries as the parties enter the final stages of agreeing on a deal.
Seoul's move to open its market for oriental medicine has set off a fierce protest from local doctors who are concerned about increased competition in an already saturated market.
The US and China on Friday agreed to intensify discussions about the opening up of China's services sector and explore the possibility of a bilateral investment treaty at the conclusion of this week's high level talks in Beijing.
This paper by Claire Godfrey provides a wide-ranging look at the many problems with the EPAs, and investigates how these could impact on the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries' future development.
A case study that looks at the impacts from liberalisation of the tourism industry in Vanuatu.
