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The Prudential Carve-Out for Financial Services: Rationale and Practice in the GATS and Preferential Trade Agreements

The Prudential Carve-Out for Financial Services: Rationale and Practice in the GATS and Preferential Trade Agreements

Name: The Prudential Carve-Out for Financial Services: Rationale and Practice in the GATS and Preferential Trade Agreements
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108415767
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Author: Carlo Maria Cantore
ISBN: 9781108415767

By Carlo Maria Cantore

Cambridge University Press June 2018

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ISBN-13: 9781108415767
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: June 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) sets out a framework and rules for the liberalization of international trade in services. Paragraph 2(a) of the GATS Annex on Financial Services is generally known as the Prudential Carve-Out (PCO).

Notwithstanding GATS obligations, it allows WTO Members to pursue prudential regulatory objectives. This book studies the GATS PCO in light of its negotiating history and economic rationale as well as PCOs in all preferential trade agreements notified to the WTO Secretariat up to the summer of 2017.

The author clarifies the state of play of international cooperation on financial services regulation; provides a current understanding of the GATS PCO; analyses how PCOs are drafted in preferential trade agreements and, finally, he seeks to understand whether alternative approaches to the mainstream understanding of the PCO are possible and suggests options for reform.

1. The subject matter of the study

2. International cooperation on financial services and prudential measures: WTO and beyond

3. The current understanding of the GATS PCO

4. Prudential Carve-Outs in Preferential Trade Agreements

5. A possible alternative approach

6. Suggestions for reform

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