SMEs in services trade: A GATS perspective

Rudolf Adlung and Marta Soprana

No ERSD-2012-09, WTO Staff Working Papers from World Trade Organization (WTO), Economic Research and Statistics Division

Abstract: Issues related to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supplying services have been raised at earlier stages of the Doha Round in various negotiating contexts and, more recently, at meetings of the Council for Trade in Services. It is difficult, however, to find a common denominator as to whether SME-related concerns might merit attention, from a trade policy perspective, under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Without proposing any priorities, this paper seeks to provide an overview of issues that Members might want to address in the WTO, from promoting compliance with transparency disciplines under existing provisions to advancing the liberalization and rule-making mandates of the GATS with an SME focus.

Keywords: Trade in Services; GATS; small- and medium-sized enterprises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F53 L16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.30875/b0027beb-en

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