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Trade in fisheries services under the WTO and GATS framework

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  • Emma Will
  • Maria Pettersson
  • Jesper Stage

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This paper studies how fisheries services are classified in the World Trade Organization (WTO) framework for trade in services and discusses the potential impact of unclear classifications. The WTO plays a key role in regulation and assessment in the area of trade in services, mainly due to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which contains the only set of multilateral rules managing such trade internationally. The purpose of GATS is to create a credible and reliable system of international trade rules that ensures fair treatment of all participants. Through negotiations, individual countries establish commitments to provide market access and limiting national treatment in various service sectors. During such negotiations, the classification of services is a prerequisite to ensure unambiguous and comparable commitments. However, the classification list used by the WTO, namely the W/120, is based on, and corresponds to, old versions of other classification lists, leading to unclear classifications. This lack of clarity in sectoral classifications makes policy analysis unnecessarily difficult and creates a risk that trade agreements may be interpreted differently by different parties.

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  • Emma Will & Maria Pettersson & Jesper Stage, 2020. "Trade in fisheries services under the WTO and GATS framework," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 44(2), pages 161-175, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:natres:v:44:y:2020:i:2:p:161-175
    DOI: 10.1111/1477-8947.12199
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