WTO SERVICES ROUND ANALYSIS
January 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INSURANCE industry will wait attentively for the responses due in May to formal requests made this week by the European Commission for its World Trade Organisation (WTO) partners to liberalise their financial sectors.These notes were made within the WTO's Doha Development Round's talks on services, which are in technical terms more advanced than the other portions of the negotiations. They are in their bilateral phase, where countries strike individual deals later aggregated into an overall agreement. Unfortunately, these discussions have yet ...
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