WTO SERVICES ROUND
April 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE UNITED States and the European Union are poised for another battle of wits at the World Trade Organisation, over the rights of governments to protect their own audio-visual sectors, especially through the use of subsidies.WTO members are about to examine in detail proposals made by the USA on the liberalisation of the international audio-visual sector, which it wants to promote through the ongoing WTO round on service industries.The subject is likely to be contentious, judging by the difficult negotiations on film and television rights that ...
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