The Audiovisual Services Sector in the GATS Negotiations
Groupe d'Economie Mondiale de Sciences Politiques
About This Event

The audiovisual service sector (movies, television, radio) presents some of the most difficult and complex issues for WTO trade negotiators as they attempt to achieve greater trade liberalization in the Doha Round of multilateral negotiations. As part of its Trade in Services project, AEI commissioned two leading experts on the sector and on the WTO negotiations, Patrick A. Messerlin and Stephen E. Siwek, to analyze the issues and present recommendations for a successful negotiation. They will present their findings at this seminar, which will also include comments from three outside panelists who represent varied views on possible outcomes in the audiovisual negotiations.

Agenda

8:45 a.m.

Registration

9:00

Presenters:

Patrick A. Messerlin, Groupe d'Economie Mondiale de Sciences Politiques

Stephen E. Siwek, Economists Incorporated

Discussants:

Jean-Francois Boittin, Embassy of France

William Crosbie, Embassy of Canada

Bonnie Richardson, Motion Picture Association of America

representative from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Moderator:

Claude Barfield, AEI

10:30

Adjournment

Groupe d'Economie Mondiale de Sciences Politiques
AEI Participants

 

Claude
Barfield
  • Claude Barfield, a former consultant to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, researches international trade policy (including trade policy in China and East Asia), the World Trade Organization (WTO), intellectual property, and science and technology policy. His many books include Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization (AEI Press, 2001), in which he identifies challenges to the WTO and to the future of trade liberalization.
  • Phone: 2028625879
    Email: cbarfield@aei.org
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