European Parliament Lays Out TISA Demands, Including China Participation

摘要

The European Parliament rapporteur on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) has laid out 10 demands that must be met for a final agreement to be acceptable to its members, including having China participate in the negotiations now taking place among selected members of the World Trade Organization. "China will certainly become one of the main trading partners in services," said Viviane Reding, the parliament's TISA rapporteur and a member of the European People's Party in a Jan. 13 press conference. "It will be very important to have China on board and I think there is a general agreement in Europe that China should be granted access - if it so wants - to the negotiation table." She said that as negotiations advance, other emerging economies such as Brazil, Russia, India, and South Africa will join.