Trade in services and development

Trends in the services trade balance varied.

The situation is similar in trade in services.

Contrary to previous years, world total services trade increased less rapidly (13 per cent) than merchandise trade (16 per cent) in 2003.

The services sector had been addressed under WTO auspices in 1995 in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

As regards trade in services, world exports in commercial services expanded by 16 per cent to reach a total value of 2.1 trillion in 2004.

It is also assisting COMESA in assessing the implications of services trade with the EU under the Cotonou Agreement.

As Pakistan's distribution sector is already relatively open, services trade (and investment) liberalization through the GATS was not an entirely new concept for the country.

The nature of services trade renders it prone to unforeseen developments, and a safety belt could assist countries in their liberalization efforts.

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This has posed constraints to their full participation in the negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services.13 Active implementation of articles IV (increasing participation of developing countries) and XIX 2 (progressive liberalization) of the Agreement would increase the competitiveness of service supply of developing countries and beneficial engagement in trade in services.

Article VI.4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services mandates the development of disciplines to ensure that measures relating to qualification requirements and procedures, technical standards and licensing requirements and procedures do not constitute unnecessary barriers to trade in services.

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Online sales are less common in retail trade (B2C) or in services' industries, with sales accounting for only 1.7 and 1 per cent of total sales, respectively.

Nevertheless, they still face substantial difficulties in participating in services trade, and their exports are particularly vulnerable to external shocks.

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In March 2005, the European Commission tabled a proposal for a regulation to compile data on inward and outward Foreign Affiliate Trade in Services statistics for States members of the European Union.

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The informal retailing sector will have a role to play once markets are opened and formal retailing expands. FDI facilitates the switch from informal to formal retailing.

The treaty was created to extend the multilateral trading system to service sector, in the same way the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) provides such a system for merchandise trade.

In parallel to the discussion of the regulation, Eurostat has drafted a manual for the compilation of this data once the regulation comes into effect.

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While these figures may be helpful in indicating how countries can harness services trade for development, developing countries remain particularly vulnerable to external shocks over which they have no control, given their over dependence on a limited number of service activities.

They expect that their regional initiative will allow them to benefit from shared resources and opportunities and facilitate the creation of regional industries that are capable of penetrating new markets and competing globally.

When slavery was abolished, the terms of partnership with Western colonizers changed from trade in slaves to trade in commodities.

Other experts stressed that modern retailers usually integrated backwards and could then help improve manufacturing processes and packaging.

While countries commit themselves to encouraging modern retailing to benefit consumers, farmers, manufacturers and other services providers, there is no one size fits all solution for implementing reform in the distribution sector and for maximizing development benefits.

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As a proportion of GDP, Tunisia s trade with the EU is one half that of the Czech Republic, and Morocco s is one quarter that of Poland.

In the specific case of Nicaragua, catalyst funding obtained has helped to launch an initiative involving several partners, with the aim of identifying concrete proposals for the provision of environmental services, particularly targeting carbon emissions trading.

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