The services sector had been addressed under WTO auspices in 1995 in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) provides a unique multilateral legal framework for trade in services and for negotiations on their further liberalization.

Global outsourcing was understood as trade in services through so called cross border supply of services embedded in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) as Mode 1 (supply of services).

7. India has bilateral air services agreement with Bhutan.

10. India has bilateral air services agreement with Nepal.

Discussions also focus on definitions and principles, where Members seek to draw on the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and the Agreement on Agriculture, while keeping in mind the specificities of services.

Economic Literacy Series General Agreement on Trade in Services, No. 3 (International Gender and Trade Network, 2001).

25. Annex 1B contains the General Agreement on Trade in Services and its associated legal instruments, while annex 1C contains the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was adopted in 1994 and is the first trade agreement to cover investment in services.44 It provides a legal framework for trade in services, defined to cover a range of areas, including investment, financial services, communications, transportation, education, energy, water and movement of persons.

(c) New agreements reached at the Uruguay Round (Agreement on Safeguards, Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures, Agreement on Preshipment Inspection Agreement on Rules of Origin, Agreement on Agriculture and Agreement on Textiles and Clothing).

Economic Literacy Series, General Agreement on Trade in Services, No. 3 (Washington, D.C., International Gender and Trade Network, 2001).

Sr Suzette attended a Strategy Meeting on the General Agreement on Trade in Services in Geneva from 23 March to 16 April, 2004.

13 For the full text of the General Agreement on Trade in Services, see http www.wto.org english tratob_e serv.e gatsintr_e.htm.

The banking services agreement between the United Nations and Standard Chartered Bank signed on 8 October 2004 provides banking services for the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI).

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Work was currently under way within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to expand the scope of government procurement by revising the GATT Agreement on Government Procurement to cover services.

Rapid progress must also be made to improve the development potential of trade in services by liberalizing the temporary supply of labour services (mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services) and cross border supply of services via outsourcing and offshoring (mode 1).

18. In the area of central services that may be provided by UNDP to OPS, the agreement of the task force is that such services would be rendered on the basis of cost effectiveness.

UNICEF agrees to initiate negotiations at the appropriate level to conclude a framework agreement on pharmaceutical procurement services with other relevant United Nations organizations.

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This has posed constraints to their full participation in the negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services.13 Active implementation of articles IV (increasing participation of developing countries) and XIX 2 (progressive liberalization) of the Agreement would increase the competitiveness of service supply of developing countries and beneficial engagement in trade in services.

Its achievements included the Agreement on Agriculture and the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.

UNCTAD's analytical work on the movement of physical persons (Mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services) was important and of potential benefit to developing countries.

Agreement for air services between and beyond their respective territories (with annex and exchange of notes).

The Plurilateral Trade Agreements (Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft, Agreement on Government Procurement, International Dairy Agreement and International Bovine Meat Agreement) are contained in annex 4.

Trinidad and Tobago does not have any commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) on distribution services, and determination of the type of commitments that could be made would require that appropriate impact studies be carried out.

In the absence of a formal agreement with UNIDO on unified services under United Nations management, these estimates have been based on the assumption of a changeover to separate services phased in at the end of the biennium 1994 1995.

Provisional Agreement on Children Returnees

Agreement on joint film production

It must be mentioned that in December 2004 an agreement on technical cooperation and advisory services was signed between the Vice President and the office in Colombia on this matter.

The Framework Agreement sets out five core areas that include, in addition to agriculture, market access on non agricultural products, services, development issues and trade facilitation.

There should be strong commitment to allowing the movement of natural persons to developed countries under Mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

The UNCTAD secretariat continued to provide substantive services to the ongoing negotiations of China, Mongolia and the Russian Federation on the draft transit traffic framework agreement.

Load on Demand Services

On technical support services

The reason behind the framework agreement between early childhood centers and local community services centers was to better structure and harmonize educational child care services, health services and social services for children and their families, particularly the most vulnerable and the most disadvantaged.

Similarly, Mexico measures affecting telecommunications services is the first dispute relating to the 1997 Basic Telecom Agreement and the Reference Paper establishing disciplines on telecom competition safeguards.

The reasons for the lack of agreement on such an approach were not clear, particularly given the preference expressed by the General Assembly for unified conference services.

It was pointed out that the Nairobi Agreement on Customs Cooperation of 1971 provides specifically for the cooperation of custom services in the prevention of illicit traffic.

agreement on who are its citizens

Final agreement comes on December 10.

Agreement on Mode 4 was important.

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Expert Meeting on Distribution Services