国际服务贸易—编辑简介【外文原文】.pdf

J pet Trade (2008) 8:169–180
DOI -008-0037-y
International Trade in Services—Editorial Introduction
Arjan M. Lejour & Peter M. Smith
Received: 9 July 2008 /
Accepted: 5 August 2008 / Published online: 3 October 2008
# Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2008
Abstract This special issue of JITC focuses on the globalization of trade in services and
the effects on small open economies. It looks at a number of issues relating to international
trade in services to re-evaluate the degree to which services are traded and tradable, the
degree to which such trade is increasing, the implications of globalization and off-shoring
and the policy responses required both to foster international integration in services and to
react to the likely economic implications.
Keywords trade in services . globalization
JEL Classification F13 . F15 . F23
1 The concept of trade in services and how did it develop?
While the economies of developed countries are dominated by services, the treatment of
international trade continues to focus on goods. The most extreme version sees services as
non-tradable even though some goods producing industries are non-tradable (construction
and mining are location specific) and transportation services have always been at the heart
of trade in goods. The nearest equivalent to trade in goods for services is direct cross-border
transactions in which the purchaser of the service is located in one country and the provider
in another. Services also cross borders when the consumer moves to the country of the
provider to obtain a service or when the producer temporarily moves to the country of a
The views expressed in this introduction are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the
mission
A. M. Lejour (*)
herlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, . Box 80510, 2508 GM The Hague,
herlands
e-mail: .******@
P. M. Smith
DG Internal Market and Services, mission, Brussels, Belgium
e-mail: pete