Towards a plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement (TISA): Challenges and prospects

Pierre Sauvé ()
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Pierre Sauvé: World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy (JICEP), 2014, vol. 05, issue 01, 1-16

Abstract: This paper addresses a number of policy challenges arising from ongoing attempts to negotiate a plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), a recently launched plurilateral negotiating initiative coexisting uneasily alongside the World Trade Organisation's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), particularly in the context of the ongoing Doha Development Agenda. While the TISA offers scope for imparting much needed forward movement to a policy area of central economy-wide and trade importance, such progress, even if realized within the narrower confines of a preferential trade agreement made possible under the GATS, poses a number of systemic risks to the multilateral order extending beyond services trade.

Keywords: Trade in services; World Trade Organisation; trade agreements; preferential trade; trade negotiations; general agreement on trade in services; F13; F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1142/S1793993314400067

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