Recently the regional service trade liberalization is expanding rapidly. In the wake of the 'GATS+' trend showing in the regional trade agreements (RTAs), GATS-Minus (GATS-) characteristics has been found obviously in part of these RTAs. This paper showed that GATS-minus commitments is concentrated to some specific service sectors (such as finance, communication, business and transportation services) and supply modes (mainly mode 3 and mode 4). The typical GATS minus commitments are as follows: (1) imposing more restriction measures on the original market access and national treatment commitments; (2)seeking more exemption and exclusion on the subsidy related obligations ; (3) reducing the sector coverage of the GATS commitment.
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