What Negotiating methods are to be adopted?
The main method of negotiations shall be the request and offer approach. In a request-offer approach at the initial stage countries would lay on the table their requests on other trading partners (i.e. their list of demands, seeking greater market access for their exports from them) and in turn also place their offers to other trading partners16 (i.e. the concession that they are willing to offer giving greater market access to imports of services from its trading partners). Subsequently, it will be followed by negotiations between countries either bilaterally or between Groups of Countries or multilaterally. Any commitments agreed to during this process with a particular country or a Group of countries or multilaterally will be made applicable in respect of other countries at the end of negotiations. The starting point of negotiations will be the existing schedules of specific commitments of the member countries.
