Lord Green of Deddington: DIT: Written Answers (1)

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Written Question

General Agreement on Trade in Services

Monday 21st January 2019

Asked by: Lord Green of Deddington (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask Her Majesty's Government with which countries the UK has General Agreements on Trade in Services mode 4 commitments as part of trade deals.

Answered by Baroness Fairhead

Currently, the UK’s Mode 4 commitments in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) are applied to all other 163 World Trade Organisation (WTO) Members - full details of membership can be found on the WTO website under ‘Members and Observers’.

In addition, through the UK’s membership of the EU, the UK participates in around 40 free trade agreements. These arrangements cover more than 70 countries and a number of these agreements include services which cover Mode 4. The Government is seeking continuity for our existing EU free trade agreements as we leave the European Union.