TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1993
AND WITH MR TSANG IS
AS THE SERVICE INDUSTRIES BECOME MORE SOPHISTICATED, THE CONTINUED BOOM IN THE ASIAN-PACIFIC ECONOMIES, CONFIDENT THAT THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPORT THE SERVICES.
CHINESE MARKET HAS PLACED IN MARSHALLING THE AND TECHNOLOGY SKILL
"THE CONTINUOUS OPENING UP OF THE
HONG KONG IN AN UNRIVALLED
RESOURCES IN LABOUR, THROUGHOUT CHINA.
"IN THE
COMMERCIAL AND
POSITION
10
YEARS,
AND SCATTERED
HONG
ENORMOUS
UNTAPPED
OF
KONG'S A SYNERGY I SEE NEXT
CHINA'S NEARLY BOUNDLESS AND CAPABILITY MARKETING
PROFITS HONG KONG OPPORTUNITIES, RESOURCES WHICH WILL GENERATE FOR
FAR EXCEED AND PROSPERITY IN THE EXPORT OF SERVICES, AT LEVELS WHICH THOSE THAT EXIST IN THE TRADE IN GOODS.
"WHAT IS NEEDED IS VISION, COURAGE NEVER IN SHORT SUPPLY IN HONG KONG,
H
CREATE
AND ENTERPRISE MR TSANG SAID.
WHICH ARE
SERVICES
AND OTHER
AND SUSTAIN A FREE TRADE
HE BELIEVED URUGUAY ROUND NEGOTIATIONS ON REGIONAL INITIATIVES COULD ENVIRONMENT CONDUCIVE TO THE EXPORTS OF OUR SERVICES.
A DAUNTING TASK OF
THE
MULTILATERAL CREATE
ROUND
OF (UR) URUGUAY
IS TO
A THE AUSPICES OF GATT TRADE TALKS LAUNCHED UNDER
AND DISCIPLINES TO GOVERN COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK OF GENERAL RULES INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN THESE HIGHLY DIVERSE ACTIVITIES, HE SAID.
THE ULTIMATE
AIM
IS ΤΟ
ACHIEVE
PROGRESSIVE
THROUGH THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATORY MEASURES AND OPENING COMMITMENTS, HE EXPLAINED.
HONG KONG PARTICIPATES ACTIVELY IN
THE SERVICES
BEING CURRENTLY HELD IN GENEVA.
LIBERALISATION
ACTIVE MARKET
NEGOTIATIONS
RELY ON POLITICAL A FROM
STRONG MULTILATERAL
OR
"AS A FREE TRADE ENTITY WHICH DOES NOT
ΤΟ GAIN MUCH MILITARY CLOUT, WE HAVE REGIME FOR TRADE IN SERVICES.
THE "OUR GOALS IN THE SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS ARE TO ENSURE THAT
MARKET ACCESS RULES DEVISED ARE SOUND AND PRACTICAL AND TO DISMANTLE
** MR TSANG ADDED. PROBLEMS OUR BUSINESSES ARE FACING OVERSEAS,
HE PAID SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THE HONG KONG COALITION INDUSTRIES FOR THEIR INPUT IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS.
OF
SERVICE
AFTER YEARS OF INTENSIVE DISCUSSIONS, THE MAIN PROVISIONS OF DRAFT GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TRADE IN SERVICES HAVE BEEN SET.
THE MAIN OBLIGATIONS
MOST-FAVOURED
A
ARE
THIS AGREEMENT
THAT MEANING
A MEMBER ON INFORMATION
MEASURES
FROM DERIVED TRANSPARENCY, MEMBERS
AND
AND TREATMENT
BETWEEN DISCRIMINATE AFFECTING TRADE IN SERVICES SHOULD BE MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE.
CANNOT
TREATMENT OF
OTHER PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS PROVIDE FOR THE EQUAL FOREIGN AND LOCAL SERVICE PROVIDERS AND MARKET ACCESS RULES.
"IF IMPLEMENTED
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