Council for Trade in Services - Special session - Negotiations on trade in services - Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Fernando de Mateo, to the Trade Negotiations Committee
- Negotiations on trade in services
- 2011/12/06
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World Trade
Organization TN/S/37
29 November 2011
(11-6245) Council for Trade in Services
Special Session
Preferential Treatment to Services and
Service Suppliers of Least-Developed Countries
Report by the Chairman, Ambassador Fernando de Mateo
Members of the Special Session of the Council for Trade in Services have been pursuing the development of a waiver mechanism to allow the extension of preferential treatment to services and service suppliers of LDCs. This has been in accordance with the Modalities for the Special Treatment for Least-Developed Country Members in the Negotiations on Trade in Services (TN/S/13), and the guidance provided by Ministers in Annex C of the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration for developing appropriate mechanisms for according special priority to LDCs.
Work in the Special Session and informal consultations in a small group led by Norway has been continuing toward that objective. A recent intensification of that work has