WTO SERVICES ROUND
May 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has offered to enshrine in international law, the right of non-European Union retailers to enjoy the same rights to set up supermarkets, hypermarkets and departments stores across Europe, as local retail companies.Its offer comes in the World Trade Organisation's Doha Development Round, where negotiations on services are the most advanced of all its talks on liberalising global commerce. Said a Brussels statement: "The granting of licences for new department stores will be done on the merits of each application." Some ...
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