The Prudential Carve-Out for Financial Services: Rationale and Practice in the GATS and Preferential Trade Agreements (Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law) - Hardcover

Cantore, Carlo Maria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108415768 ISBN 13: 9781108415767

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) sets out a framework and rules for the liberalization of international trade in services. Paragraph 2(a) of the GATS Annex on Financial Services is generally known as the Prudential Carve-Out (PCO). Notwithstanding GATS obligations, it allows WTO Members to pursue prudential regulatory objectives. This book studies the GATS PCO in light of its negotiating history and economic rationale as well as PCOs in all preferential trade agreements notified to the WTO Secretariat up to the summer of 2017. The author clarifies the state of play of international cooperation on financial services regulation; provides a current understanding of the GATS PCO; analyses how PCOs are drafted in preferential trade agreements and, finally, he seeks to understand whether alternative approaches to the mainstream understanding of the PCO are possible and suggests options for reform.

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About the Author

Carlo Maria Cantore is a Lecturer in International Trade and Investment Law at the University of Antwerp.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108415768
• ISBN 13: 9781108415767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282