Services in Regional Trade Agreements: Implications for India

Nag, Biswajit; De, Debdeep

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“…Of late, its attempt to convert India-Sri Lanka FTA into another CECA and negotiation attempts with partners like EU, Malaysia, etc. clearly shows its inclination to include services in the new agreements, (B, Nag, 2008). Upon signing, the CECA with India would represent the first such bilateral arrangement that Singapore has entered into with a developing country, and India's first such agreement with a high-income, affluent country and thus assumes significance.…”

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“…Given Singapore's locational advantage and its close linkages with countries in Southeast Asia, India should view Singapore as a gateway for expanding into the ASEAN market especially in sectors, such as tourism, health and software. Also, given the unequal geographical size of the two countries and the quasifederal structure the Indian government, Singapore could benefit by entering into agreements in selected service sectors with interested state governments, (Mukherjee, Arpita, 2003 Nag, 2008). Upon signing, the CECA with India would represent the first such bilateral arrangement that Singapore has entered into with a developing country, and India's first such agreement with a high-income, affluent country and thus assumes significance.…”

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India Singapore Trade-A Paradigm Shift

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Vadra

2013

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India and Singapore are mutually important economic partners. Singapore is not just India's most important trading partner amongst the ASEAN countries, but also significant as India's gateway to ASEAN and china. The paper studies the trends and changes in the composition of exports and imports of Indian trade with Singapore during the study period 1991-2009. It uses regression analysis for the same. India is Singapore's fastest growing trade partner amongst major economies, outstripping even china. Not only has bilateral trade soared between the two nations since the signing of the comprehensive economic cooperation agreement in 2005. India was Singapore's 13th largest trading partner in 2005. This paper is useful for the researchers and businessmen who wish to do trade between India and Singapore. This paper defines a paradigm shift in the trade relations between India and Singapore.

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India Singapore Trade-A Paradigm Shift

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2013

Paradigm: A Management Research Journal

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Mapping the universe of services disciplines in Asian PTAs

Chanda¹

2014

The Preferential Liberalization of Trade in Services

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This paper analyses the relationship and dynamics between multilateral and regional or preferential trade rules and commitments in services in a sample of eight PTAs involving Asian countries. It examines the evolving universe of rules and negotiating architectures in services and the extent to which PTAs have gone beyond the GATS. (S-S) agreements. The analysis reveals that although countries tend to commit more sectors and subsectors under PTAs than under the GATS, these commitments are not deeper within subsectors or modes and that they tend to be less liberal than the existing policies. Where PTAs improve upon the GATS is in terms of their overall architecture as they include additional chapters and annexes which go into considerable detail on a variety of cross-cutting, sectorspecific, and emerging issues. The analysis suggests that North-North agreements tend to cover some of the more difficult issues such as government procurement, while North-South agreements have a focus on issues such as recognition of qualifications which relate to the importance of mode 4 in North-South services trade. South-South agreements tend to focus on institutional cooperation and establishment of mechanisms, reflecting the need for strengthening capacity and institution building in these countries. However, overall, there is considerable diversity among PTAs, which do not follow a uniform pattern, indicating that the negotiating dynamics vary by partner countries and across PTAs.. 1 In this paper, the term PTAs is used to describe all types of agreements, including free trade agreements, economic partnership agreements, and comprehensive economic cooperation agreements. 2 The author wishes to thank Pralok Gupta, doctoral student at IIM Bangalore for his research assistance and help in finalizing all the data tables and compiling information on the status of PTAs and unilateral policies. The author is also grateful to Shahana Mukherjee and Josmy Joseph for their enumeration of commitments in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and in PTAs.

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Services in Regional Trade Agreements: Implications for India

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India Singapore Trade-A Paradigm Shift

India Singapore Trade-A Paradigm Shift

Mapping the universe of services disciplines in Asian PTAs

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