The objective of the national workshop is to:

• review the GATS agreement and the current negotiations on trade in services in the WTO;
  
  
• discuss the country´s perspective on the multilateral and regional negotiations relating to services;
  
  
• review the liberalization of trade in services at the regional level and the experience of SADC in this regard; and
  
  
• hold in-depth discussions on the six priority sectors identified by SADC countries for their regional negotiations.