International trade law Monitorra.irv.uit.no/trade_law/itlp.html services, particularly transport, travel and international finance, has long been an important part of the business environment. However, most trade policy makers felt that the flow of services was too low to be large, that virtually all negotiated services came from industrialized countries, i.e. that the concentration on trade liberalization of goods would automatically lead to an increase in trade in services. The development of a joint private and public sector initiative to assess the effects (positive or negative) of trade liberalization in services. Article I, paragraph 3 of the GATS excludes “services provided in the exercise of state authority.” These are services that are not provided on a commercial basis or in competition with other providers. In cases, these are social security systems and all other public services, such as health or education, which are provided in non-market conditions. Dorothy Riddle is an ITC trade advisor. E-mail: driddle@compuserve.com – higher value-added back-office operations than basic data entry. This includes not only more traditional data collection and processing, but also electronic publishing, site design and management, customer call centre, medical records management, hotel reservations, credit card authorizations, remote secretarial services, online technical assistance, indexing and abstraction services, research and technical writing, and technical writing. Manufacturers are increasingly attributing product design, logistics management, research and development, and support for after-sales service. One of the obstacles to multilateral discussions was the confused question of how services could be exchanged.
For trade in goods, the concept is relatively simple: producers stay in one country and goods cross a border to another country. Transparency: GATS members are required, among other things, to publish all measures of general application and to set up national investigative bodies to respond to requests for information from other members. It`s a marketing specialty. With the privatization of pension fund management in Chile, Chilean financial service providers have become highly developed and successful. They are now exporting pension fund management services to other Latin American countries. Similarly, Ugandan engineers are successfully exporting their expertise in water supplier management to neighbouring countries. In a slightly different approach, China has developed an effective strategy to obtain technical assistance from industrialized countries and then re-sustain this export know-how to other developing countries. As far as services are concerned, the situation is more complex: in many cases, the supplier and the customer are on the same site as for tourism. This means that there are four possibilities for movement: the service moves across the border; The customer travels across the border to get the service. The manufacturer crosses the border to provide the service through a commercial agency; or the manufacturer only crosses the border temporarily to provide the service.