“…Concerns over NTM data availability and soundness lead many existing studies on mega-FTAs to refrain from simulating services liberalisation (see, for example, Badri and Sachin 2014, Huong and Kikuchi 2016, Arora, Singh, and Mathur 2015, Mathur, Arora, and Bhardwaj 2016, Cheong and Tongzon 2013, Rahman and Ara 2015a, Meyveci Doganay, Uzun, and Tokpunar 2014, Faruqui, Ara, and Acma 2016, Al Amin 2015. But the methodological trivialisation of services market opening up in previous CGE simulations erroneously under-predict the potential effects of these broad and deep mega-regional agreements that treat services liberalisation as standard fare 93 .…”