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Should We Regulate Services Trade?

Originally published in the Journal of Commerce, August 7, 1984. Used with permission of Michael R. Czinkota and the Journal of Commerce.

In the past few months the United States has reached agreement with its allies on tigher controls on computer exports, including for the first time controls on software trade, and has proposed regulating exports of certain services to the security forces of countries that aid or abet international terrorism.

The international trade community should pay close attention to these two events, for although they seem to be unrelated and to address quite narrowly defined issues, they ...

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