Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- PART 1 Beyond regulatory control and multilateral flexibility: Gains from a cosmopolitan GATS
- PART 2 Unexplored economic, political and judicial dimensions of GATS
- PART 3 The limits of request–offer negotiations: Plurilateral and alternative approaches to services liberalisation
- 6 Services post-Hong Kong – initial experiences with plurilaterals
- 7 Negotiating approaches from a Member's perspective
- 8 Evaluating alternative approaches to GATS negotiations: Sectoral, formulae and others
- 9 Trade liberalisation under the GATS: An odyssey?
- PART 4 GATS case law: A first assessment
- PART 5 Market access, national treatment and domestic regulation
- PART 6 Unfinished business: Safeguard and subsidy disciplines for services
- PART 7 Challenges to the scope of GATS and cosmopolitan governance in services trade
- PART 8 Conclusion
- Index
7 - Negotiating approaches from a Member's perspective
from PART 3 - The limits of request–offer negotiations: Plurilateral and alternative approaches to services liberalisation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- PART 1 Beyond regulatory control and multilateral flexibility: Gains from a cosmopolitan GATS
- PART 2 Unexplored economic, political and judicial dimensions of GATS
- PART 3 The limits of request–offer negotiations: Plurilateral and alternative approaches to services liberalisation
- 6 Services post-Hong Kong – initial experiences with plurilaterals
- 7 Negotiating approaches from a Member's perspective
- 8 Evaluating alternative approaches to GATS negotiations: Sectoral, formulae and others
- 9 Trade liberalisation under the GATS: An odyssey?
- PART 4 GATS case law: A first assessment
- PART 5 Market access, national treatment and domestic regulation
- PART 6 Unfinished business: Safeguard and subsidy disciplines for services
- PART 7 Challenges to the scope of GATS and cosmopolitan governance in services trade
- PART 8 Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Introduction
This chapter looks at practical aspects of managing the WTO services negotiation, and how different negotiating approaches can affect these. It makes some observations about the experience of New Zealand, a small but active WTO Member managing a complex negotiation from a long distance and with modest resources, in relation to the two main negotiating approaches it has encountered to date during the Doha Round negotiations on trade in services. It examines, from an individual negotiator's viewpoint, the costs and benefits arising from the bilateral and plurilateral approaches and their impact on the negotiating positions and resourcing decisions New Zealand has taken during the negotiation to date. It also looks very briefly at New Zealand's reaction to the attempt to establish numerical targeting as a core negotiating approach. Finally, it moves to some tentative conclusions about the merits of the various approaches and their effect on the ability of delegations like New Zealand to achieve their negotiating objectives.
New Zealand's approach to the WTO services negotiations: Objectives and resourcing
While principally known as an exporter of agricultural products, trade in services is an increasingly important component of New Zealand's overall export profile. Approximately 66 per cent of GDP is generated by the services sector, and exports of services have expanded in recent years to 28 per cent of total exports. Tourism is New Zealand's biggest services export (and indeed most significant export overall), followed by audio-visual services, education, professional services, business services and environmental services.
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- GATS and the Regulation of International Trade in ServicesWorld Trade Forum, pp. 172 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008