GENERAL OBLIGATIONS AND DISCIPLINES Sample Clauses

GENERAL OBLIGATIONS AND DISCIPLINES. ARTICLE 805
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GENERAL OBLIGATIONS AND DISCIPLINES. It is important to understand the difference between general obligations and disciplines, on the one hand, and specific commitments, on the other. Every country that signs the Marrakech Agreement is committed to observing and implementing most of the provisions under Part II (general obligations and disciplines) of the GATS for all commercial services (government and military services are excluded). However, it is committed to observing and implementing the provisions of Part III (specific commitments) only for the specific services and service sectors that it has listed in its schedules and only within the limits that it has described for each of these services and service sectors in these schedules. A few provisions in Part II pertain only to specific commitments. It is important also to understand that countries must sign on to the whole Marrakech Agreement. They cannot accede to only parts of it, say only GATT 1994, the GATS, or the TRIPS. There are 14 articles in Part II (general obligations and disciplines) of the GATS. Of these, there are five which are especially pertinent to telecommunications. They are described in Box A.1. Most-Favoured Nation (MFN) is probably the most important of the whole Agreement. It is the cornerstone of a multilateral trade agreement without which the WTO would be little more than an overseer of bilateral and perhaps regional trade deals. In simple terms, the MFN principle in a trade agreement means that if one country agrees to give another country certain treatment with respect to trade, it has to give treatment “no less favourable” to all other countries that have signed the trade agreement (Signatories of the Marrakech Agreement are referred to as Members). Indeed, if a Member country extends some additional market opening privileges to services and service providers from any other country (which does not even have to be a signatory to the Agreement), it would have to extend those privileges to services and service providers from all other countries which have signed the Agreement “immediately and unconditionally”. By requiring that all market opening measures are extended automatically to all other Members, the MFN provision prevents the negotiation of bilateral deals that could distort patterns of trade among WTO members: However, this may be viewed as disadvantageous by a Member country that has a market which is already far more open than others or which is considering removing further barriers to trade since thi...
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