The race towards preferential trade agreements in services: How much market access is really achieved?

Gats and the Regulation of International Trade in Services

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 77-110

  Roy, Martin ^a   Marchetti, Juan ^a   Lim, Aik Hoe ^a  

^a WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84928271585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511494543.004     Document Type: Chapter

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