U. S. Trade in Financial Services: An Overview Book

	Preface
	Introduction
Ch. 1	Financial Services Trade and the U.S. Economy	1
	Delivery Channel One: Cross-Border Trade	2
	Delivery Channel Two: Foreign Affiliates of Multinational Corporations	5
Ch. 2	U.S. Policy	9
Ch. 3	Barriers to Financial Services Trade	11
Ch. 4	Multilateral Agreements and Organizations: The World Trade Organization (WTO) and the GATS	13
	Background	13
	The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)	14
	Financial Services Under the GATS	17
	Current And Future WTO Negotiations	20
Ch. 5	Pending and Proposed Trade Agreements	23
	The U.S.-Vietnam Trade Agreement	23
	U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement (FTA)	25
	Proposed U.S.-Chile FTA	27
	Proposed U.S.-Singapore FTA	30
	Proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)	31
	Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum	35
Ch. 6	Significant Trading Relationships: Regional and Bilateral	37
	Financial Services Trade under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)	37
	U.S.-European Union (EU) Financial Services Trade	45
	U.S.-Japanese Financial Services Trade	48
	China's Accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Financial Services	51
	App. I: Data, Data Collection and Coverage	53
App. II	The OECD and the BIS and Financial Services	57
	Index	63