The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA)（《服务贸易协议》(TiSA)）.pdf

The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) This public survey is about the negotiation and conclusion of a stand-alone plurilateral agreement on trade in services between the EU and currently 2 1 WTO-members, being Australia, Canada, Chile, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Costa Rica, Hong Kong China, Iceland, Israel, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Pakistan, Peru, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA. Those 22 WTO-members represented around two thirds of global trade in cross-border services (excluding intra EU trade) in 2010. This future trade in services agreement should be based on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and is meant to advance the stalled multilateral negotiations carried out under the umbrella of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) with those countries that are willing to continue negotiations on trade in services. New and/or improved commitments from all WTO members would be particularly important for the EU as services constitute the single most dynamic economic activity in the EU, accounting for almost 3 quarters of GDP and employment. EU companies are leading providers of services in many sectors and are the biggest exporters of services worldwide, with almost 26% of world total export of services and half of all foreign investment flowing from the EU to other parts of the world. Legal security and new market access opportunities are therefore crucial for European companies. In order to overcome the stalemate of the Doha negotiations, at the 8th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in December 2011, Ministers acknowledged the impasse and issued elements for political guidance providing for a commitment (…) to advance negotiations, where progress can be achieved, inclu