Highlights

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Director-General Lamy with CSI Chairman Bill Toppeta at the Global Services Summit, September 22, 2010.

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Jeff Shafer Vice Chairman for Global Banking, Citigroup, testifies on behalf of CSI at a Senate Finance Committee Trade Subcommittee hearing on the Doha Round on October 27, 2005.

... Photograph by J. Stuart Harris ...

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CSI Chairman Norman Sorensen testifying at a hearing of the Trade Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee on May 17, 2005. The hearing focused on future prospects for US involvement in the World Trade Organization. For a copy of Mr. Sorensen’s testimony, click here.

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Ambassador Rufus Yerxa, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization, addresses CSI members on October 5, 2004. Click here for a copy of Ambassador Yerxa's remarks.

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Ambassador Alejandro Jara, Chairman of the WTO Council on Trade in Services Special Session, at a meeting with CSI members in Washington on October 20, 2004.

Services Drive Growth

The Service Economy

Services represents approximately 75% of US economic output and about 80% of US private sector employment. In 2010, US private services exports exceeded $526 billion, and had a services trade surplus of approximately $168 billion.

Services are essential inputs into the production of virtually all products. The price and quality of services influence costs and productivity in all other sectors in an economy, including manufacturing and agriculture. Thus, when liberalized and made more efficient, services have a strong effect in the competitiveness of an entire economy. For more data and statistics on the service economy, click here.

About CSI

CSI is the leading business organization dedicated to the development of U.S. domestic and international policies that enhance the global competitiveness of the U.S. service sector through bilateral, regional, multilateral, and other trade and investment initiatives.
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