Here is a handy URL for Trade Acronyms:<br><br><a href="http://resources.alibaba.com/topic/11870/List_of_International_Trade_Acronyms.htm">http://resources.alibaba.com/topic/11870/List_of_International_Trade_Acronyms.htm</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Koven Ronald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kovenronald@aol.com" target="_blank">kovenronald@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Subject: RE: [governance] France Proposes an Internet Tax<br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span>As an aside I'm wondering if we as a group might not want to try to avoid specialized jargon and acronyms. I know that I'm guilty of this as well from time to time but we need to recognize that we are a multi-lingual, multi-cultural group with a lot of people whose first language isn't Tech, International Relations, International Trade and that's apart from those who aren't able to communicate here in their other first languages :)</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span> William Drake [<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch?" target="_blank">mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; michael gurstein<br>
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<div class="MsoNormal">The GATS has 15 General Obligations and Disciplines (GODs). Absent waivers or other limitations, the key GODs of MFN and national treatment apply to their scheduled services, and the EC schedule is quite liberalizing and covers information services, which presumably includes the targeted "over the top" services. If instead you wanted to argue for a narrowly content-based categorization, I've not looked at it in a decade but the EC schedule is probably more restrictive regarding advertising services; however, in this it's probably typical in not being reflective of contemporary web-based transactions like what Google, FB etc. are up to (could look on the WTO site). And of course, one could debate whether that simple category would suffice here. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">In any event, despite all the intensive debate and rule making of the 1990s, com ministries don't generally appear to be all that attentive to the GATS, at least until the national trade ministries call and tell them there's a complaint etc. I've not detected much attention to it in the ITU in some time, and certainly did not hear anyone talk about it or suggest it mattered to what they were proposing in Dubai.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span><span> </span></span><span><a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</span></a><span> </span>[<a href="mailto:governance-?" target="_blank">mailto:governance-</a><a href="mailto:request@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">request@lists.igcaucus.org</span></a>]<span> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span> </span></b>William Drake<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:23 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [governance] France Proposes an Internet Tax</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">On Jan 22, 2013, at 9:18 PM, Nick Ashton-Hart <<a href="mailto:nashton@ccianet.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">nashton@ccianet.org</span></a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">A small problem that seemed to receive zero discussion among the proponents in Dubai</div>
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