Publication Number: 4015

Report Title: Recent Trends in U.S. Services Trade, 2008 Annual Report

Investigation Number: 332-345

Author's name(s): Dennis Luther, Project Leader, Erland Herfindahl, Deputy Project Leader, Cynthia Payne, Lisa Ferens Alejandro, Jennifer Baumert, Eric Forden, Andrew Gately, Joann Peterson

Date Published: June 2008

Report Description/Introductory Text: This report focuses on trends in U.S. services trade performance, concentrating principally on factors affecting global competitiveness and summarizing factors contributing to recent trade performance in infrastructure services, including banking, insurance, telecommunications, and logistics, and also retailing services. The report also summarizes recent and ongoing initiatives by international organizations and national governments to improve services trade statistics.

Topics Covered: services, infrastructure services, banking, insurance, telecommunications, logistics, retailing, cross-border trade, affiliate transactions, competitive conditions, liberalization, mergers and acquisitions, technologies, statistics on services trade

Countries: United States, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea (South), Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Vietnam

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