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Mexico – Measures Affecting Telecommunications Services (WT/DS204/R) A Comment on “El mess in TELMEX”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Damien J. Neven  and
Petros C. Mavroidis
Damien J. Neven
Affiliation:
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
Petros C. Mavroidis
Affiliation:
Columbia Law School, New York and University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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This chapter reviews the panel report on Mexico – Measures Affecting Telecommunication Services. The Panel considered claims by the United States that Mexico acted inconsistently with its obligations in respect to the liberalization of its market for telecommunication services. It is the first Panel to consider solely the rules agreed upon in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). It is also the first Panel to deal with the telecommunication services industry and its complex layers of legislation, in particular the rules agreed to in the Telecommunications Reference Paper (TRP) on pro-competitive regulatory principles. Viewed from this perspective, this report is, because of its potential as a precedent, of particular significance.

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Research Article
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World Trade Review , Volume 5 , Special Issue S1: WTO Case Law of 2003 , 2006 , pp. 188 - 219
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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