Proposals put forward on services pillar of post-Bali work

24 April, 2015
TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Apr15/08)
An informal meeting of the Special Session of the Council for Trade in Services on Monday (20 April), amongst others, heard proposals from some Members on defining the services component of the post-Bali work programme on the remaining Doha Development Agenda (DDA) issues. Members also agreed that the services component of the work programme should include market access and rule-making for services trade, with the market access negotiations needing to move in parallel with the rule- making part of the services agenda.

G-33 insist on SSM, reject developed-country demands to drop it

24 April, 2015
TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Apr15/07)
Members of the G-33 farm coalition, seeking better terms for low-income and subsistence farmers in the developing countries, have severely criticised attempts to deny the special safeguard mechanism (SSM) for curbing the unforeseen surges in imports of agricultural products from heavily subsidised beneficiaries of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) under the Marrakesh Treaty negotiated during the Uruguay Round.

Our World is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network members' demonstration at WTO MC9 Bali 2013

Our World is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network members' demonstration at WTO MC9 Bali 2013.

TISA - Pourquoi cet accord de libre-échange (ALE) proposé sur les services est dangereux pour la démocratie, le développement et l’intérêt public et doit être arrêté!

1 March, 2015
OWINFS Briefing Paper
Un “accord international sur les services” (TISA)? Pourquoi cet accord de libre-échange (ALE) proposé sur les services est dangereux pour la démocratie, le développement et l’intérêt public et doit être arrêté!

Towards an International Secret Agreement (TISA) on Financial Services?

1 October, 2014
OWINFS Briefing Paper
This OWINFS network's brief on the proposed Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), explains how the proposed TISA push more dangerous deregulatory policies on Financial services and endangers future financial regulatory capacity of governments.

Sharp "asymmetries" in levels of ambition emerge in TiSA talks

20 April, 2015
TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Apr15/04)
As the technical experts and negotiators engaged in the controversial plurilateral initiative on Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) prepare a report on their overall progress during the last three years, it has emerged that there will be sharp "asymmetries" in the levels of ambition in different services sectors, according to several members familiar with the negotiations. In this brief D Ravi Kanth provides an overview of levels of ambition in current TISA negotiations,

LDCs assess high-level meeting on LDC services waiver

27 March, 2015
TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Mar15/05)
According to trade officials, at the regular meeting of the Council for Trade in Services on 18 March, the LDCs, in their presentation, assessed the high-level meeting that was held on 5 February, in which number of developed country members and developing country members in a position to do so had indicated the services sectors and modes of supply where they intend to provide preferential treatment to the LDCs.

ACS : divulgation d'un nouveau document visant à promouvoir le « tourisme » médical et la privatisation

3 February, 2015
Public Services International (PSI)
Cette proposition, qui aurait été mise sur la table par le gouvernement turc, a été discutée en septembre dernier par les États membres de l'UE, lors des négociations sur l'ACS organisées à Genève. Elle prévoit une annexe sur les services de soins de santé dans le cadre de l'ACS, qui permettrait aux patients de se déplacer plus facilement à l'étranger pour bénéficier de services de santé.

Briefing on leaked US TISA proposal on e-commerce, technoloy transfer, cross-border data flows and net neutrality

17 December, 2014
A detailed memorandum by Professor Kelsey and Dr Burcu Kilic shows how the leaked US TISA proposals mirror the demands of its IT and services industry.