Research On Market Access System Of International Telecommunications Services Under GATS

Telecommunications services trade is the WTO trade in services under the framework of an important component of the external trade in services in recent years to develop faster in part, "General Agreement on Trade in Services" (GATS) is the foundation of negotiations on trade in telecommunication services, and the first trade in services together is the gateway to the importing country's market access, namely access to markets. Because of the specificity of Telecommunications services, are often of a country's security problem, so most of the country have reservations. Especially for the developing countries as China, Chinese telecommunications services industry in the process of gradually opening up, is facing fierce competition and the impact has not yet been introduced at a sound regulatory system for telecommunications services before the question of market access deal with the appropriate or not will directly affect China's telecommunications service industry's survival and development plans. This article from the international trade in telecommunication services market access system begin to define the scope of the telecommunications services and economic characteristics, from telecommunications services into the GATS regulations started the historical background, demonstrated the relationship between telecommunications services trade and GATS , and then the International Telecommunications Service development of the origin of market access ,international telecommunications services into the basic characteristics of the trade. GATS provides for general exceptions and security exceptions provisions at GATS Telecom Annex, as well as "basic telecommunications agreement" have embodied such a rule is intended to protect the barrier between the system and the country economic conditions exist differences in the interests of the concerned public benefits and national security, and maintain normal order of international trade in telecommunication services .GATS also provides for general provisions, such as most-favored-nation principle of transparency, monopolies, exclusive service suppliers and business practices and so on the content of these for the international telecommunications market access have a significant impact. WTO members because of obligations in the field of trade in services is not universally applicable, that is the most basic market access obligations, are depending on their respective commitments as set out, depending on the members of trade in services in their respective schedules of specific commitments made. Telecommunications industry has traditionally belong to the natural monopoly industries, although in recent years the field of value-added telecommunications competition has been formed, but in the field of basic telecom monopoly is still widespread. In order to ensure that existing monopolies at the introduction of competition is no longer abusing its market dominant position, the maintenance of fair competition, ensure that all members on market access and national treatment commitments are effectively implemented, Member States on their telecommunications services submitted market opening commitments.With the increasing development of world trade, a new round of telecommunications negotiations is going along. According to the negotiating proposals already put forward, some new topics at the negotiating table is emerging, mainly embodied in the international settlement rate questions, access the Internet on such questions, e-commerce and the GATS rules as well as the question of "basic telecommunications agreement" to amend the content of questions, a majority of the members asked for a reduction or elimination of restrictions on market access and so on. International telecommunications market access system for trade in services in different countries show a different situation, through the United States, Japan, the European Union, India and other countries market access system, we can analyze, in the more developed countries market access system for the relative more relaxed, more performance for external expansion, while for the less economically developed countries, the protection of local telecommunications resources to carry out a conditional open markets, a level of information security for the country the major issues.At present, our country has entered the WTO's eighth years, our country is basically completed the telecommunications services under the GATS on market access commitments of the vast majority of mission, in the value-added telecommunications services, in particular, are stationed in foreign investment there is more large expansion, but the basic telecommunications, and information security based on the National Government of China is still in the absolute dominance.China's current telecommunications service about the legal system of market access is still primarily rely on "Telecommunications Ordinance" to regulate, while others have such as "anti-monopoly law," "foreign-invested telecom enterprise control requirements" and other laws and regulations from different angles and aspects to adjust, but not a perfect "Telecommunications Act" has always been our country telecommunications services trading system one of the major enormous flaws. As the world trading system, the rapid development of improved market access system has become a matter of imperative to formulate laws and regulations of natural resources at the national telecommunications foundation that safety comes first on the road, coupled with the principle of transparency into the embodiment of In the framework of the previous system on re-establishment of a new order, and market access for telecommunications system and standardize the content added with the renovation, integration norms appropriate to relax the access system, which developed high-order trade in telecommunications services access method.