This electronic handbook requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above; or Netscape Communicator 4.5 or above versions. Please also make sure your browser accept "Cookies".

Before you start the searching, please pay attentions to the following guidelines and follow them to implement the searching.

1. From the "Country Selection" page, please select at least one country. You are allowed select all countries with the "Select All Countries" anchor.

2. If you want to re-select the countries in the "Country Selection" page, you must click the browser's "REFRESH / RELOAD" button to clear all previous selections.

3. If you go to the "Country Selection" page by using the browser's "BLACK" button, please also click the browser's "REFRESH / RELOAD" button to re-load the page.

4. Having selected your country(ies), you can click the "Next" button to go to "Industry / Sector" Page.

5. When you are in the "Industry / Sector" Page, please wait for few seconds for downloading a cascading menu., which can let you find out the industry / sector you want in an easy way.

6. From the industry / sector cascading menu, please select an industry.

7. Right after you click the industry, you will see a sub-menu of sub-sectors. If there is a "Red Arrow" behind a sector, it means there is a sub-sub-menu.

REMARK 1: If you want to see all sub-sectors / sub-sub-sectors under a sector you want to study, you can click this sector anchor and the system will return you all sub-sectors' and sub-sub-sectors' schedules.

Example: If you want to see all schedules under 'Insurance' industry, click it and you will have the schedules of 'Life, Accident and Health Insurance Services', 'Non-life Insurance Services' and all sub-sub-sectors of 'Reinsurance and Retrocession, Services Auxiliary to Insurance [including broking and agency services] -- 'Brokerage Services', 'Agency Services', 'Consultancy, Actuarial, Risk Assessment and Claim Settlement .

REMARK 2: If you select a sub-sector/sub-sub-sector which no commitment is made in the WTO's GATS schedules, the system will automatically try to search one level higher for you.

The reason is the country may make commitments in a relatively broad level. It means the commitments are applicable to all WTO defined sub-sectors and sub-sub-sectors.

Example: IF there is no commitment in 'Insurance - Life, Accident and Health Insurance Services' sector, the system will try to search 'All Insurance and Insurance-Related Services' industry for you.

If there is no commitment return, it means the country doesn't make any commitment in the industy / sector you specified.

8. Having decided the sector / sub-sector / sub-sub-sector you want, please click your mouse and you will see "Menu Bar" coming out.

9. In the "Menu Bar", you can select "Horizontal Commitments" or "Specific Commitments" or "MFN Statements" of the countries you have selected. Right after you click an individual country's name , you will see a result window with the schedules of that country.

10. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, you will see some anchors which can let you see the details of each item after you click them. You can also hide them by clicking them again.

11. When you want to select another country, please go to the "Menu Bar" and re-select again. (The "Menu Bar" is still existing and you can see it when you click one of the icons in the task bar - the bar in which you see the Microsoft Window "Start" button. )

12. When you want to look at other industry / sector, please go to the 'Industry / Sector' window again. (The "window" is still existing and you can see it when you click one of the icons in the task bar - the bar in which you see the Microsoft Window "Start" button. )

Now you can click the button below to begin searching.