General Agreement on Trade in Services Sample Clauses

General Agreement on Trade in Services. The term ‘‘General Agreement on Trade in Services’’ means the General Agreement on Trade in Services (referred to in section 3511(d)(14) of this title).
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General Agreement on Trade in Services. Members, Recognizing the growing importance of trade in services for the growth and development of the world economy; Wishing to establish a multilateral framework of principles and rules for trade in services with a view to the expansion of such trade under conditions of transparency and progressive liberalization and as a means of promoting the economic growth of all trading partners and the development of developing countries; Desiring the early achievement of progressively higher levels of liberalization of trade in services through successive rounds of multilateral negotiations aimed at promoting the interests of all participants on a mutually advantageous basis and at securing an overall balance of rights and obligations, while giving due respect to national policy objectives; Recognizing the right of Members to regulate, and to introduce new regulations, on the supply of services within their territories in order to meet national policy objectives and, given asymmetries existing with respect to the degree of development of services regulations in different countries, the particular need of developing countries to exercise this right; Taking particular account of the serious difficulty of the least-developed countries in view of their special economic situation and their development, trade and financial needs;
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General Agreement on Trade in Services. The horizontal management measures adopted by one side regarding the foreign character of the services or service suppliers of the other side shall not be considered as less favourable treatment.
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General Agreement on Trade in Services. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which came into force in 1995, is a binding multilateral framework agreement with the following objectives: to create a credible and reliable system of international trade rules; ensure fair and equitable treatment of all participants; stimulate economic activity through guaranteed policy bindings; and promote trade and development through progressive liberalization…All WTO Members, some 140 economies at present, are at the same time Members of the GATS..”13 The GATS covers four different “modes of supply”, which include: • mode 1, cross-border supply (service from the territory of one member into the territory of another); • mode 2, consumption abroad (service in the territory of one member to the service consumer of any other member); • mode 3, commercial presence (supply of a service by a service supplier of one member, through commercial presence in the territory of any other member); and • mode 4, the movement of natural persons (supply of a service by a person from one country by entering the territory of another).14 An important aspect of the GATS is the process by which countries commit themselves to liberalizing services. Countries are free to decide which service sectors they wish to include in the negotiations. A country can request another to open up certain service industries, while the latter can limit the sectors that would be covered in the negotiations. WTO members, which are also states of employment, have used this flexibility of deciding which service sectors to negotiate, to protect their domestic workforce from competition by foreign workers. GATS liberalizes the migration of certain categories of migrant workers. It covers high-skilled workers who are provided employment contracts. It includes expatriate executives who are in the same multinational corporation.15 In addition to arranging their residence and work permits, corporations usually provide relocation benefits, language, and culture training. Although GATS does not define the skill level of migrants to which Mode 4 applies, governments have focused on hiring high-skilled workers. GATS Mode 4 has been proclaimed as the development model for developing countries because it would facilitate the legal entry of workers from states of origin to states of employment. Supporters said that it would address the lack of employment in the states of origin, develop economic growth, and increase participation of developing countries in th...
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General Agreement on Trade in Services. The GATS subjects one of the most important and fastest growing components of world trade to multilateral disciplines for the first time. Acknowledging one of the defining characteristics of trade in services, namely the frequent need for proximity between suppliers and consumers, hence for commercial presence, the GATS contains the single largest number of investment-related provisions found in the Final Act of the Uruguay Round.
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Related to General Agreement on Trade in Services

  • Trade in Services 1. The Parties shall aim at gradually liberalising and opening their markets for trade in services in accordance with the provisions of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (hereinafter referred to as the “GATS”), taking into account ongoing work under the auspices of the WTO. 2. If a Party grants to a non-Party, after the entry into force of this Agreement, additional benefits with regard to the access to its services markets, it shall agree to enter into negotiations with a view to extending these benefits to another Party on a reciprocal basis. 3. The Parties undertake to keep under review paragraphs 1 and 2 with a view to establishing an agreement liberalising trade in services between them in accordance with Article V of the GATS.

  • CFR Part 200 or Federal Provision - Xxxx Anti-Lobbying Amendment - Continued If you answered "No, Vendor does not certify - Lobbying to Report" to the above attribute question, you must download, read, execute, and upload the attachment entitled "Disclosure of Lobbying Activities - Standard Form - LLL", as instructed, to report the lobbying activities you performed or paid others to perform. Compliance with all applicable standards, orders, or requirements issued under section 306 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 1857(h)), section 508 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1368), Executive Order 11738, and Environmental Protection Agency regulations (40 CFR part 15). (Contracts, subcontracts, and subgrants of amounts in excess of $100,000) Pursuant to the above, when federal funds are expended by ESC Region 8 and TIPS Members, ESC Region 8 and TIPS Members requires the proposer certify that in performance of the contracts, subcontracts, and subgrants of amounts in excess of $250,000, the vendor will be in compliance with all applicable standards, orders, or requirements issued under section 306 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 1857(h)), section 508 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1368), Executive Order 11738, and Environmental Protection Agency regulations (40 CFR part 15). Does vendor certify compliance? Yes

  • Committee on Trade in Goods 1. The Parties hereby establish a Committee on Trade in Goods comprising officials of each Party. The meetings of the Committee and any ad-hoc working group shall be coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru, or their respective successors. 2. The Committee shall meet upon request of a Party or the Joint Commission to consider matters arising under this Chapter, Chapter Three (Rules of Origin), Four (Origin Procedures) or Five (Customs Administration and Trade Facilitation).

  • Four on, Two off Schedule In an effort to maximize full-time employment opportunities, the local parties may agree to a “four on, two off” innovative schedule, subject to the following principles: (a) The introduction of such schedules and trial periods, if any, shall be determined by the local parties. Each Home must have the majority agreement of the full-time and part- time employees who vote on the issue to agree on a trial period of up to six months. Once the trial period is complete, each Home must have a minimum of 66⅔% agreement of the full-time and part-time employees who vote on the issue to continue with the new schedule on a permanent basis. (b) The implementation of such schedules shall be established only by mutual agreement of the Employer and the Union. (c) Notwithstanding the definition for full-time employee under Article 2.02, employees who participate in this schedule will normally be scheduled for thirty-five (35) hours per week on average and will be considered a full- time employee for all purposes of the collective agreement. i) Notwithstanding Article 16.01, for the purposes of bi-weekly overtime, the normal weekly full-time hours shall remain at seventy-five (75) hours per bi-weekly average over a six (6) week period. In each bi-weekly pay period the employee will be paid for all hours worked. At the end of the six (6) week period, entitlement for bi-weekly overtime will be calculated and paid. ii) Notwithstanding Article 16.01, for the purposes of daily overtime, the normal daily hours shall remain at seven and a half (7.5) hours per day. In each bi-weekly pay period the employee will be paid for all hours worked including daily overtime, if any. (e) For the purposes of vacation entitlement, the current collective agreement provisions shall apply using thirty-five (35) hours per week. (f) Each facility/unit must have eighty percent (80%) agreement of the full- time and part-time employees who work in the facility/unit. (g) The Four on, Two off schedule, may be discontinued by either party upon receipt of twelve (12) weeks’ notice to the other in writing of its desire to terminate. A meeting shall be held within two (2) weeks of receipt of such notice to discuss the reasons for the discontinuation. The Four on, Two off schedule, may be discontinued by the Union in any facility/unit when sixty percent (60%) of the employees in the facility/unit so indicate by secret ballot to the Union.

  • Amendments to Employment Agreement Effective as of the date hereof, the Employment Agreement shall be amended as provided in this Section 1.

  • Amendment to Exhibit A to Services Agreement Solely with respect to Accounts that are not investment companies registered under the 1940 Act, the section of Exhibit A to the Services Agreement entitled “Administration and Risk Management” shall be, and hereby is, deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

  • Compliance with Consensus Policies and Temporary Policies Registry Operator shall comply with and implement all Consensus Policies and Temporary Policies found at <xxxx://xxx.xxxxx.xxx/general/consensus-­‐policies.htm>, as of the Effective Date and as may in the future be developed and adopted in accordance with the ICANN Bylaws, provided such future Consensus Polices and Temporary Policies are adopted in accordance with the procedure and relate to those topics and subject to those limitations set forth in Specification 1 attached hereto (“Specification 1”).

  • General Agreement In the event Indemnitee was, is, or becomes a Participant in, or is threatened to be made a Participant in, a Proceeding, the Company shall indemnify the Indemnitee from and against any and all Expenses which Indemnitee incurs or becomes obligated to incur in connection with such Proceeding, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

  • Form of Agreement and Reporting If a vendor submitting an offer requires TIPS and/or TIPS Member to sign an additional agreement, a copy of the proposed agreement must be included with the proposal to the TIPS Member. TIPS does not require a review a TIPS Member’s Job Order contract TYPE AIA or other similar Contract provided by the TIPS Member. This clause does not relieve the Vendor from the responsibility to report the contract execution and the amount of the contract and any change orders.

  • Second Amendment to Exhibit A to Services Agreement Exhibit A to the Services Agreement shall be, and here by is, supplemented with the following: