Download or read book Telecommunications Services Trade and the WTO Agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World telecommunications services trade is growing and evolving very rapidly, appearing to corroborate expectations that the 1997 international agreement to liberalize trade in basic telecommunications services would greatly increase world trade in those services. While the agreement, under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO), faces many obstacles to full effectiveness, it is expected to benefit the highly competitive U.S. telecommunications industries and facilitate world economic growth. Congress, as always, is concerned that trading partners adhere to their commitments. Essentially no bills in the 107th Congress were directly related to this issue, however. This report will be updated as events warrant.
Download or read book The WTO Agreements on Telecommunications written by Bobjoseph Mathew and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Telecommunications Services Trade and the WTO Agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The WTO Telecom Agreement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telecommunications Services Trade and the WTO Agreement written by M. Angeles Villarreal and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telecommunications and Trade Promotion Authority written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade in Telecommunications Services written by Chantal Blouin and published by Trade and Economic Analysis Division (EET). This book was released on 1999 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World Trade Organization Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services and Its Implications for Developing and Transition Economies written by Peter F. Cowhey and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade in Information Technology written by and published by Bernan Press(PA). This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study forms part of the activities of the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC) on the export and market development of technology and engineering products"--Page iii.
Download or read book Business Guide to the General Agreement on Trade in Services written by Commonwealth Secretariat and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is a historical agreement covering a wide range of international service transactions. In support of further trade negotiations, the Guide also highlights issues in which the business community may wish to provide input as preparations for trade negotiations move forward.
Download or read book The WTO Telecom Agreement written by William B. Garrison and published by Center for Strategic & International Studies. This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference report : Washington, D.C., 1997.
Download or read book Unfinished Business written by Gary Clyde Hufbauer and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1997, 69 countries accounting for 95 percent of world telecommunications traffic agreed to open their basic telecommunications service markets. In April 1997, 28 countries accounting for 80 percent of world trade in information technology (IT) goods agreed to eliminate tariffs on IT goods by January 2000. These two agreements represent significant steps toward global telecommunication liberalization. The agreements also mark the beginning of new battles that will determine the extent of competition and reform in the telecommunications industry in the 21st century. Although implementation of the two pacts will be phased in over several years, some signatory countries are already facing a backlash from local telecommunications companies and equipment suppliers. Hence the issue remains highly contentious around the world. In this volume, leading scholars from different countries offer their assessments of the two new agreements. They also predict the evolution of the telecommunications industry in the years ahead. The volume provides essential background on future developments in this dynamic and crucial sector, and suggests ways in which it can be shaped to provide maximum benefits for the world economy.
Download or read book The WTO Agreement and Telecommunication Policy Reforms written by Peter F. Cowhey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happily, the revolution going on in the telecommunications industry is benign. Technological change and competition are making possible changes considered improbable even 15 years ago. The WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services created a new regime for the world market. Now we must pay close attention to regulatory fundamentals.
Download or read book When Countries Talk written by Jonathan David Aronson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade Telecommunications written by Mark Clough and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the implications of the global liberalisation of voice telephony and other basic telecom services for the international telecommunications industry.
Download or read book The CETA agreement on Telecommunication Services written by Markus Fredebeul-Krein and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1997 WTO members signed the Fourth protocol, which, for the first time, determined a set of international rules for trade in basic telecommunication services. While this agreement was a major step in the direction of liberalising national telecommunication markets, many deficiencies remained. At the time, it was agreed to enter a new round of negotiations by the year 2000. However, 20 years later, as of today, the former rules are still in place without any revision. While this is rather disillusioning from a free trade perspective, progress has been made on bilateral trade agreements. One such agreement is the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada, which provisionally entered into force on 21 September 2017. CETA, that includes two Chapters affecting telecommunications markets, one on services in general and one on telecommunications services, envisages amongst others to further open up service markets to foreign companies by lifting existing market entry barriers. It is the objective of this paper to analyse whether the CETA-agreement on telecommunications services can serve as a blueprint for a future WTO accord towards multilateral trade liberalisation. In answering this question, the results of the CETA-agreement on telecommunication services will be compared with the results of the WTO accord on telecommunications services. Thereby the focus will be on the question whether CETA can serve as model for a future revision of the WTO rules in the area of telecommunications services. Is CETA a major step in the direction of further liberalising national telecommunication markets and are the regulatory provisions detailed enough to make competitive market access become reality?
Download or read book WTO Trade in Services written by Rüdiger Wolfrum and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
