Global Services Summit Communiqué, Washington D.C. 22 Sept 2010
The Global Services Coalition (GSC) includes;
Australian Services Roundtable, CanadianServices Coalition, Coalition of Service Industries(United States), European Services Forum, HongKong Coalition of Service Industries, Japan
Services Network, NASSCOM (India), Taiwan
Coalition of Services Industries, TheCityUK(United Kingdom), Business New Zealand.

Global Service Industries Call for Action on Services Trade
The GSC today issued the following statement at the close of the second Global Services Summit:
Services industry leaders from across the world today call upon G20 Leaders, as well as APECLeaders, to use their upcoming meetings in Seoul and Yokohama respectively, to re-ignite theDoha Round, and move forward, with urgency and resolve, on a path that will lead to the Doha
Round’s successful conclusion. A successful Round will only be possible if the services
negotiations are elevated to more centre-stage and substantial and commercially meaningful
outcomes are achieved, including bindings of new market access and of autonomous
liberalization and commitments to enhanced transparency, efficiency and predictability ofservices regulation.
The call for action came at the 2nd Global Services Summit, held today in Washington, DC,attended by hundreds of leaders in the services trade field. Featured speakers included Trade
Ministers from the United States, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, the Trade
Advisor to the British Prime Minister, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization andthe Chairman and Ranking Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means
Committee.
Services are integral to all economic activity, complementing manufacturing and agriculture.
Both because infrastructural services enable all other sectors to be efficient and because of theexpanding need for services, services have created vast numbers of new jobs. In the decade to2005, worldwide employment in the service sector grew from 34% to 39%.
Year after year, the services element grows in every economy. In most countries services now
represents the lion’s share of economic output, with productivity growth and innovation inservices industries becoming more and more fundamental in driving economic growth. The

fastest and most proven way for all countries to improve their services productivity is throughinternational trade in services, yielding all the benefits that trade brings in terms of price andchoice. In the current economic climate, increased international trade and investment in services
are the foundation on which sustained economic recovery and expansion will be built. For thispotential to be realised, the global market–opening agenda must be re-focused and re-energized.
We are glad that during the economic slowdown over the past two years, governments have notresorted to protectionism, and we urge the G20 to ensure that the commitment to free trade andmovement of resources continues. At the G20 Summit in Toronto, Leaders called for progress onservices trade. In their Communique, Leaders pledged to bring the Doha Round “to a balancedand ambitious conclusion as soon as possible… We direct our representatives, using all
negotiating avenues, to pursue this objective…”
We have not seen enough effort to turn this clarion call into a programme of action. Yet there is
no more time to lose. There is only a narrow window of opportunity between now and the G20
meeting in Seoul. The time to prepare the ground is now. The services business community
needs confidence that a process will be put in place fast. We urge WTO members to find new
approaches in Geneva to accelerate wider market access negotiations, before the Seoul Summit.
We ask that they come prepared to engage seriously in exchanging meaningful offers.
The Seoul G20 Summit and the APEC Leaders meeting in Yokohama will shine a light on Asia’s
exceptional economic dynamism and resilience. For years, global flows of trade and investment
have underpinned burgeoning economic growth across the region. Asia must now play aleadership role in ensuring that the WTO moves forward to advance the services trade andinvestment agenda. Countries in this region should also take advantage of opportunities to pursue
services reform and market opening through APEC and other institutional frameworks such as
the Trans Pacific Partnership.
This 2nd Global Services Summit has enriched the trade policy debate. The Global Services
Coalition’s statement issued today on Services and Development demonstrates clearly that
services are integral to economic growth. Our services industries are committed to working withgovernments to realize an ambitious reform and liberalization agenda to enhance services
productivity and grow the global services economy. We call on all Governments to seize themomentum and issue unequivocal instructions to negotiators to harness their collective energy toachieve this goal.