1st November 2005

Doha Round Briefing Series: Trade in Services

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The most significant – and controversial – recent development in the Doha Round services negotiations has been the strong push by certain WTO Members to establish mandatory minimum market access commitments (benchmarks). These initiatives are premised on the view that both the initial and the revised commitments offered so far leave much to be desired, and that the existing bilateral “request and offer” negotiating modality is not sufficient to achieve the depth and scope of liberalisation commitments desired by these Members.