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The Depth Of The Trade In Services Agreement, Harold Godsoe
The Depth Of The Trade In Services Agreement, Harold Godsoe
Harold Godsoe
The setting against which plurilateral negotiations toward a new Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) are taking place is frustration. Service liberalization from GATS to bilateral PTAs to the Doha round have proven difficult and/or ineffective. The glaring and unexamined question is: why? This paper examines the current trade literature for what is known about TISA to date and subjects that information to a feasibility analysis for trade in service agreements. My goal is to understand what went wrong in previous attempts to liberalize services and/or trade and, consequently, what might being going wrong in TISA, and how it might be …