Why Fair Trade?

International trade in services

Division of Trade Support Services

Trade in services and development

Trends in the services trade balance varied.

Commission on Trade in Goods and Services,

The world knows what is needed fair trade, increased direct assistance and debt relief.

Based on information gathered by the UNCTAD secretariat from the Jamaican Fair Trade Commission.

Based on information gathered by the UNCTAD secretariat from the Korean Fair Trade Commission.

Free trade in consultancy and technology related services

Mr. Julian Arkell, International Trade and Services Policy

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

Item 5 Trade in services and development implications

The situation is similar in trade in services.

Half of world trade in commercial services consists of business services, which includes professional services such as accounting, legal, health and advertising services.

Many detailed the negative impacts of trade liberalization and called for a fair trade framework in all trade negotiations and for trade support that is not at the expense of aid and debt relief.

It is difficult to see how the fair trade movement can contribute much to solving this problem, because the only serious policy for stabilizing producers incomes is to control supply. But that is beyond the scope of fair trade.

Assessment of trade in services in the GATS negotiations

Subsides and trade in services, S WPGR W 9.

In a notable breakthrough in 1997, the British House of Commons decided to serve only fair trade coffee. By the end of 2007, more than 600 producers organizations, representing 1.4 million farmers in 58 countries, were selling fair trade products.

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International trade involves goods, services, transport operations, vehicles and infrastructure.

Non agricultural activities include manufacturing, trade, services and transport etc.

The ability to take part in fair trade is the opportunity for a nation to help itself.

The international community should build a multilateral trade system that is fair, non discriminatory and rule based.

It was in this context that the issue of rights had been introduced into the debate on trade together with notions of fair, development oriented trade.

Evidence shows that growth in ICT goods and services trade has been higher than growth in total trade.

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

They were recorded in the accounts, at fair market value, when the goods or services were received.

Nonetheless, figures confirm the increasing significance of South South services trade.

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Trade in these services could offer important opportunities for developing countries given their comparative advantage in labour intensive services.

Given the role of services in development, technology transfer and trade, a balanced outcome in services negotiations is imperative.

Developing countries generally remained net importers of commercial services in 2003, and their services trade has been below global averages.

Ms. Lourdes M. Perez, National Directorate of Services for External Trade, Panama

The last years have seen a growth of RTAs covering services trade.

Aaditya Mattoo, Economics and Law of Trade in Services, 2004, World Bank.

Those executives have global experience in trade in transnational goods and services.

Removing trade distorting subsidies and providing access to markets, in particular through the Doha Development Round of trade negotiations, would contribute to creating free and fair trade arrangements with potentially large economic benefits to developing countries.

(ii) Training courses, seminars and workshops three workshops on the implications of trade in services to Arab countries Arab business community and World Trade Organization agreements and tourism services in the Arab countries.

Services trade can create employment opportunities and promote poverty alleviation and human development.

Contrary to previous years, world total services trade increased less rapidly (13 per cent) than merchandise trade (16 per cent) in 2003.

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.

The Statistics Division is developing a worldwide database for trade in services in cooperation with OECD to complement the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (Comtrade) merchandise trade database.

Transport, logistics and distribution services are crucial for moving goods and services from one country to another, while business, telecommunications and financial services reduce transaction costs and support trade.