Liberalization of International Trade in Service under the Uruguay Round

Today services play quite a significant, role in international trade alongside goods. This refers to services connected not only with such spheres as banking or transport but also with telecommunications and the right to patents. This is best confirmed by the fact that during the negotiations taking place within the Uruguay Round (started in 1986) besides negotiations concerning products a great deal of attention Is devoted to international trade in services. That problem was advanced by the United States as one of topics for multilateral trade negotiations carried within the framework of GATT. Hence it seemed justified to discuss this problem in the present article. It was divided Into two parts, with the first of them dealing with reasons leading to the new round of multilateral trade negotiations within GATT. It analyzes the stances taken by particular countries taking part in the negotiations and points at their divergences. The second part deals with International trade in services tackled in greater detail, and it points at the necessity of regulating and liberating it. An attempt has been also made to analyze implications of liberalization of trade in services from the viewpoint of Poland's interestsZadanie pt. Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki nr 885/P-DUN/2014 zostało dofinansowane ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej nauk