About the product
The Manual contains practical examples to assist in completing the Questionnaire designed for collecting information on measures, and a typology of the measures most commonly used by countries to regulate their services. The purpose of this publication is to promote awareness on the necessity of evaluating the effect of domestic policies, to facilitate commercial transactions and to provide companies with a valuable tool to assist them particularly in their international marketing activities. The publication includes basic background material on quantitative aspects of service trade in the world and in the countries of the hemisphere. It gives information about the World Trade Organization (WTO) along with more detailed information on the rules and results arrived at by the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of WTO. The Manual explains the logic used to structure services, stresses the importance of modes of supply services trade, and identifies some practical steps for organizing the tracking of measures nationally.
