Proposals put forward on services pillar of post-Bali work

24 Aprile, 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 Aprile, 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.

Why “Trade in Services Agreement” (TISA) is dangerous to democracy, development, and the public interest?

1 Marzo, 2015
OWINFS Briefing Paper
This OWINFS briefing paper provides an overview of the proposed Trade in Services Agreement (TISA). It analyses various critical issues involved in the TISA negotiations and explains why it is dangerous to democracy, development and the public interest. It also provides various ways to stop the proposed TISA from ever existing.

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

1 Ottobre, 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 Aprile, 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 Marzo, 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.

TISA: leaked document reveals secret talks to promote health “tourism” and privatisation

3 Febbraio, 2015
Public Services International (PSI)
The proposal, reportedly tabled by the government of Turkey, was discussed by EU member states last September at the Geneva TISA negotiations. It suggests an annex on health care services in the TISA that would promote offshoring by facilitating patients’ travel abroad to access health services.

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

17 Dicembre, 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.