ANNUAL REPORT: The @wto #Services Council (=full membership overseeing work under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, GATS)
It's 10 pages so just a highlight
#TradeInServices
1/4 docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/S…
It's 10 pages so just a highlight
#TradeInServices
1/4 docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/S…
Electronic commerce and services:
This now covers 3 areas
1. The moratorium on tax on cross-border electronic commerce (a topic as old as the WTO itself)
2. “Invigorated” discussion on boosting digital capability, from this paper: docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/S…
2/4
This now covers 3 areas
1. The moratorium on tax on cross-border electronic commerce (a topic as old as the WTO itself)
2. “Invigorated” discussion on boosting digital capability, from this paper: docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/S…
2/4
3. The on-going friction over negotiations in a sub-group of only part of the membership (“#plurilateral” talks, officially “joint-statement initiatives”, JSIs, seen as a way to progress when the membership is deadlocked) versus objections.
“A couple” = India and SAfrica
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“A couple” = India and SAfrica
3/4
In this case it’s plurilateral on digital trade and multilateral on the moratorium on tax.
In an earlier annual report it’s about domestic regulation in services. On that point, see this comment from @DmitryOpines
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In an earlier annual report it’s about domestic regulation in services. On that point, see this comment from @DmitryOpines
4/4
https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines/status/1453076125689827333?s=20
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