Abstract This paper analyzes the commitments made on rule designing and structure building in service regional trade arrangements to improve regional trade arrangements comparing to multilateral trade arrangements. The characteristics and influence through the text of these agreements of five “GATS+” factors in the regional service trade liberalization mechanism as follows (1) establishing emergency safeguard mechanism of service trade; (2) more binding dispute settlement mechanism; (3) introducing strict and even aggressive transparency obligation; (4) setting up service trade government procurement clause; (5) strengthening trade policy review mechanism.
ZHOU Nian-Li,WANG Ying-Ran,TAO Yuan. Analysis on the “GATS+”Characteristics of Regional Service Trade Liberalization Development. Economic Survey, 2013, 1(4): 060.
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