Uganda's Services Coalition Finds Strength in Numbers
International Trade Forum › Num. 1/2006, Janvier 2006
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Governments conduct negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services, but in practice it is businesses that trade. In least developed countries like Uganda, it is small firms that trade the most. "SMEs" in Uganda are not simply small and medium-sized enterprises, but small and micro enterprises. Because of their size, they can only influence trade negotiations through coalitions with firms that have similar features and challenges. Their effectiveness depends on the number and variety of the membership of such coalitions. When SME coalitions are seen to enrich the negotiations' menu with useful resources, there is no reason to exclude SME businesses from taking part in trade negotiations. In 1999, when Uganda's trade negotiations framework, the Inter Institutional Trade Committee, was still in its formative stages, the Uganda Services Exporters' Association volunteered to be the secretariat of its Trade in Services Working Group. This put the coalition at the center of trade negotiation arrangements.
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Uganda's Services Coalition Finds Strength in Numbers
GovernmentsWonduct negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), but in practice it is businesses that trade. In least developed countries (LDCs) like Uganda, it is small firms that trade the most. They have a fundamenta...
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