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Preferential Services Liberalization: The Case of the European Union and Federal States

Preferential Services Liberalization: The Case of the European Union and Federal States

Author: Johanna Jacobsson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108469937

Published In: June 2022
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781108476164

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Preferential Services Liberalization offers the first, comprehensive analysis of the conditions that the World Trade Organization sets for preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the area of services.

Johanna Jacobsson provides an in-depth analysis of the relevant GATS rules, puts forward a practical method to analyze services PTAs, and applies the method to services agreements concluded by the EU. The result is a detailed examination of the legal criteria for services PTAs and methods to study them, combined with a better understanding of the level of liberalization reached by the EU and its member states. This book does go beyond the EU in analyzing the implications that multi-level governance has for international services liberalization. It proposes a new approach to study services commitments of any federal state and argues that lower levels of government should receive more attention in international negotiations over services trade.

Part I:

1. Preferential trade agreements in the WTO

2. The GATS rules on economic integration agreements (EIAs)

3. Elimination of discrimination in EIAs

Part II:

4. Services regulation by federal states

5. Application of GATS Article V to federal entities

6. A review of federal entities' services commitments under the GATS and selected EIAs

Part III:

7. Empirical research on services preferentialism

8. A new methodology for the study of EIAs

9. Adaption to scheduling differences and economic realities