MAY 17, 2010
IN THIS ALERT
WTO Releases New Report on Preferential Trade Agreements with Services Provisions
The WTO recently released a new report evaluating the services commitments in 40 preferential trade agreements (PTAs) that entered into force and were notified to the WTO between 2000 and mid-2007. The WTO's analysis scores commitments on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 representing full commitments across all sub-sectors under two modes of supply: mode 1 (cross-border) and mode 3 (supply through a commercial presence abroad). The PTA data is also compared with those countries' current GATS commitments. For the full report, click here: http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/serv_e/dataset_e/dataset_e.htm
Save the Date: Global Services Summit 2010: Breaking the Deadlock on Services Trade and Investment, September 22
CSI and its partner organizations in the Global Services Coalition are organizing the 2010 Global Services Summit, which will be held on September 22 in Washington, DC. The event will build on the success of last year's Summit, and global business leaders and trade ministers from a number of key countries have been invited to address the event. On-line registration will be available shortly. For more information, click here: www.uscsi.org/ServicesSummit2010.html
Save the Date: Brazilian and Latin American Meeting on Research in Services, November 17-19
On November 17-19, 2010, the first Brazilian and Latin American Meeting on Research in Services will be held in Brasilia. This event is designed to bring together academics and representatives of the public and private sector interested in research on services. In addition, this meeting will launch the Latin American Network on Research in Services, an organization modeled after the European Association on Research in Services. For the call for papers, click here: http://www.uscsi.org/documents/call%20for%20papers%20-%20sbcs2010_en.pdf