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

Neven, Damien J. ; Mavroidis, Petros C.

In: World Trade Review, 2006, vol. 5, no. S1, p. 188-219

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    Summary
    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