The Impacts of the WTO GATS and TRIPS Agreement

• Main Authors: Anny Yi-Ying Tsai, 蔡伊瑩
• Other Authors: Tsai-Yu Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85473520576051982381

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 翻譯學研究所 === 92 === The Translation service is a service listed under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS); since Taiwan’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in January 1, 2002, all trade related policies and measures, including laws and regulations governing the translation market must comply with the WTO standards. Among the WTO agreements, two agreements directly affect the translation market. One is the GATS. The other is the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS Agreement) because translation service is also directly related with intellectual property rights such as translation rights, and copyrights. Hence, the paper focuses on the impacts of the GATS and TRIPS Agreement on Taiwan’s translation market from a translator’s viewpoint. The major objectives of the paper are to understand the direction of the translation service after the entry of WTO in the hope of establishing a more regulated translation market; analyze the openness of Taiwan’s Translation market; and identify the major positive and negative impacts of the GATS and TRIPS Agreement on the translation market. The paper first examines the translation market in Taiwan, studying the translation service in Taiwan, and the laws and regulations related to foreigners establishing a commercial presence and entering the country to provide translation service. The paper then looks into regulations related to the translation market under the GATS. Through a comparison of the specific commitments made by several countries including Taiwan, China, Japan, the EU, and the USA, the paper analyzes the openness of Taiwan’s Translation market and the impacts of entering the WTO on the translation market. Furthermore, the paper examines laws under the TRIPS Agreement related to the translation market. In addition, the paper reviews the Intellectual Property Laws that Taiwan amended in order to comply with the TRIPS agreement, and studies the impacts of the amendments on the translation market. Finally, the paper looks into possible problems that the market may encounter after Taiwan’s accession to the WTO, and offers suggestions to solve the problems.