Global Services Network Alert, March 13, 2004

Global services delegation to visit to Geneva, March 22-23.

A delegation led by major global service industry associations will meet with the leadership of the World Trade Organization, and with Geneva-based Ambassadors and officials from key developing and developed countries on March 22-23. The delegation will call for urgent progress on services negotiations in the context of the Doha Round. The groups participating include the Australian Services Roundtable, the European Services Forum, the Financial Leaders Group, the Hong Kong Coalition of Service Industries, the Japan Services Network, and the U.S. Coalition of Service Industries. For more information, contact John Goyer at the Coalition of Service Industries at goyer@uscsi.org or Pascal Kernais at the European Services Forum at pke@esf.be.

US-Australia FTA text available. The text of the US-Australia free trade agreement is now available on the USTR web site. Each chapter and annex is posted as a separate PDF file. Please click here.

Outsourcing: Meeting the Challenges Without Destroying the Benefits. Paper prepared by the Republican Policy Committee of the U.S. Senate, March 3, 2004. Click Here.

USTR 2004 Trade Policy Agenda and 2003 Annual Report. This report outlines the U.S. Government's trade priorities for the year and reviews its work and accomplishments in 2003. The report is available on the USTR web site. Click Here. U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick testified on the report before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means on March 9 and March 11, respectively. Those statements are available at Click here, and Click here.

US and Morocco Complete FTA negotiations. Press statement from USTR: Click here. US-Morocco FTA fact sheet: Click here.

Pre-empting Protectionism in Services: The GATS and Outsourcing. Paper by Aaditya Mattoo, World Bank, and Sacha Wunsch, Institute for International Economics, January 2004. Click here