As part of the agreement to launch a new round of WTO services negotiations in 2000, WTO members agreed to submit initial services requests by June of 2002, and table initial services offers by the end of March, 2003. Revised offers were due in May of 2005. As of January 31, 2006, the following revised offers were made publicly available:
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Egypt
European Union
Iceland
India
Japan
Korea
Liechtenstein
Malaysia
New Zealand
Norway
Switzerland
Turkey
United States
In addition, several other countries have tabled revised offers which have not yet been made publicly available. These include Argentina, Bahrain, Bolivia, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Honduras, Hong Kong China, Macao China, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, Suriname, Thailand, and Uruguay.
However, many WTO members have yet to table initial offers, let alone revised ones, and many of those offers that have been tabled offer little new liberalization. CSI and its counterpart organizations in other countries are pressing for greater progress on services. Twenty-two developing country Members have not submitted an initial offer: Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Georgia, Ghana, Kuwait, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Mongolia, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Swaziland, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
At right are links to those initial offers that are currently available as of March 30, 2006. In addition, the countries that have submitted initial offers, but which have not yet made those offers publicly available, are: Albania, Barbados, Brunei Darussalam, Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Gabon, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Macao-China, Macedonia, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Philippines, Qatar, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates. The Czech Republic, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia have removed their offers since their offers have been consolidated with the EU's offer which represents 25 countries.
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Left: Director-General Lamy with CSI Chairman Bill Toppeta at the Global Services Summit 
Left: 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. 
Left: 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, 
Left: Ambassador Rufus Yerxa, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization, addresses CSI members on October 5, 2004. 
Left: 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.