Archive - Abr 27, 2015 - Article

El primer día de la Cumbre Mundial de la Internacional de Servicios Públicos (ISP) sobre el Comercio de Servicios, que se está celebrando en Washington D.C., dirigentes sindicales de todo el mundo analizaron con los medios de comunicación sus crecientes temores sobre los efectos que tendrán las políticas comerciales sobre los servicios públicos.

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,

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.