《服务贸易总协定》与自然人自由流动

世界贸易组织《服务贸易总协定》（GATS）规定了服务贸易自由化的框架规则。按照该协定的规定。服务提供者通过在任何其他成员领土内的商业存在提供服务以及一成员的自然人作为服务提供者在任何其他成员领土内提供服务，都涉及到自然人的流动问题。《服务贸易总协定》通过主持多边贸易谈判促使各成员政府降低或减少影响作为服务提供者的自然人流动的措施（即服务贸易壁垒）并改善进入服务市场的方式来达到便利自然人自由流动的目的。世界贸易组织一些成员在服务贸易自由化方面的承诺表明：服务贸易在促进自然人自由流动取得的进展限于：作为服务提供者的受雇人（公司内部调任者）以及专业人员的自由流动，虽然仍受到各种限制，但可以准确地讲，《服务贸易总协定》只是附带地使作为服务提供者的自然人尤其是高技术人员的流动变得更为容易。

GATS and the Freedom Movement of Natural Persons

General Agreement on Trade in Services （GATS） in the WTO, one of the multilateral annexes to the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, is the framework agreement that contains the rules on progressive liberalization of trade in services. According to the agreement, services supplied by a service supplier from one member state by means of a commercial presence in another member＇ s territory and services supplied in the territory of member state by a service supplier from another member state by means of the temporary presence of natural persons of another member state, are involved with the movement of natural persons. The long-term objective of GATS is to encourage its member states to reduce or eliminate the barriers and improve the market access for the benefit of the movement of natural persons. The commitments some member states make in their schedules show that the progress of freedom movement of natural persons is limited to intra-corporate transferees and professionals. However, it will be submitted that GATS does facilitate the movement of natural persons and professionals as service suppliers.