Following the GATS services sectoral classification, distribution services include commission agents' services, wholesale trade services, retailing services, and franchising.

The GATS proposals on energy services classification capture services such as wholesale trade services, retailing services and storage services they refer to sales of fuels and wholesale brokerage (CPC 62113) wholesale trade services of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (CPC 62271) and retailing services of fuel oil, bottled gas, coal, and woods (CPC 63297).

Trade in services and development

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND

TRADE IN SERVICES

The manual provided some guidance on the compilation of data for the wholesale, retail and service trades.

International trade in services

Item 5 Trade in services and development implications

36. Services Infrastructure for Development and Trade Efficiency.

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) provides a unique multilateral legal framework for trade in services and for negotiations on their further liberalization.

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Such policies should take into account the costs that they impose on international trade in services in general and on developing countries in particular.

MESSAGE FROM UNCTAD S COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES,

UNCTAD should also continue to help developing countries to strengthen their capacities in the services sector, including for trading.

1994 General Agreement on Trade in Services Organization Multilateral Binding Adopted

(b) Improving trade supporting services facilitating trade and exports

INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN HEALTH SERVICES

Assessment of trade in services in the GATS negotiations

Trade expansion, export promotion and service sector development

Measures need to be put in place and liberalization needs to follow a proper sequencing to ensure that local providers still have a niche and an opportunity to grow and that adjustment costs, including social impact, are kept to a minimum.

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, AND COMMODITIES

(b) Improving trade supporting services facilitating trade and exports

As trade in services (and, in particular, information intensive services) increases, and as trade in both goods and services becomes itself more dependent on international information flows, telecommunications play an increasingly important role in the process of globalization of international trade.

Services infrastructure for development and trade efficiency

MODES OF TRADE IN HEALTH SERVICES

Following on the mandate for UNCTAD to assist developing countries in setting up their trade policy, the focus is on the commitments made under the General Agreement on Trade and Services by the 16 small island developing countries that are members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) with a view to analysing the link between these commitments and the strategies of these countries for developing trade in services.

National assessment of experiences with trade and development of distribution services in developing countries

10A.7 With respect to international trade in goods and services, and commodities, UNCTAD witnessed an increased demand for advisory services and training programmes from countries in the process of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

For those Trade Points which do not yet benefit from full Internet services, UNCTAD TPDC has set up an Internet Incubator which enables Trade Points (especially in developing countries) without access to the Internet to use the UNCTAD TPDC servers as data repositories.

For the period 2000 2003, trade in services represented 16 per cent of the total trade of developing countries, expanding at the same pace as their trade in goods.

EGS was a main theme of the UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2003.

Mr. Hamid Mamdouh, Director, Trade in Services, WTO

Target recipients will be traders and trade supporting service providers.

Technical assistance was also provided from databases in trade in goods and services trade in services competition policies trade and environment and investment regimes.

In 2003, LDCs accounted for 0.4 per cent of world trade in services, mostly transport and travel services.

Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities

International trade in goods and services, and commodities

Also, with the growth of trade in goods and services, the expansion of distribution networks globally implies increasing trade in distribution services.

assistance to developing countries, in coordination with WTO, in accessing date on trade in services,

II. Services infrastructure for development and

Services infrastructure for development and trade efficiency.

A survey carried out in 1996 with the majority of operational Trade Points demonstrated that those Trade Points which use the Internet more actively to promote their services or their clients services also facilitate a higher number of trade transactions per month and offer a broader range of trade facilitation services than other Trade Points.

36. The provisions of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) were expected to provide grounds for liberalization of trade in services such that growth would be further enhanced.

Furthermore, the Commission should secure its mandate on such important issues as integrating trade, environment and development trade in services improvement of trade preferences and identification of obstacles and barriers to trade.

79. The legal work of the Division should focus on assisting developing countries and countries in transition in developing regulatory frameworks which would foster facilitate international trade and trade related related services.