The services assistance has turned today in one of the economy’s matters that has shown more Sustainable growth, this is hardly surprising if we takeinto account that the globalization of the markets has benefited significantly our country. In the case of coast cities like Barranquilla, we notice that due to their excellent and strategic location, the businessmen and businesswomen of the city have obtained access into the central and north market with economics and logistics advantages. This is reflected in the low cost of international physics distribution (“DFI” in Spanish) in which fall at the moment of export, just like that in the total or partial exception of customs from a particular product in the importer country. With this horizon, it’s worth not just to focus the efforts that the exports of traditional and not traditional exports are widely accepted, but also must be  to strengthen and to promote the export of services in which Colombia possess a great export potential.  The exporters of tourist, legal, medical and amongst others services lots of times they do this kind of international activities but without the fully aware of being exporting. This to a great extent is owing to the fact that the less information that is disclosed regarding to the ways of export services and to the regulatory framework that regulates. In this sense is worth noting that with the creation of the world trade organization, also from this way born the general agreement trade of services –GATS which includes for the commerce of services the same basic rules of the commerce of properties, very well adapted for having in mind the basic differences between the properties and the services and it defined four modalities of services provided, whereby is verified its commerce. Among the modalities of services provided we find:
1. Cross-border movement of the services: under this modality, the export of services is perfected with the service’s sending but without the mobilization of the importer to the destination country. The most significant case we find in the export of software.
2. Translate of consumers to the export’s country: Is configured this modality at the moment that a non resident in a different country to his own country consumes the service. The most adapted example in this kind of modality is the student of any territory who travels to another country with the goal to study.
3. Established of a commercial presence in the country that is going to render the service: In this modality Is required the physical mobilization who renders the service to the importer country, that is to  do the export with de render of the service on the part of the supplier in the destination country. We can mention as illustration, the companies of the financial market and the insurance companies.
4.Temporary’s people transportation to other countries to render services: Is the modality is the one that to render the service it has to displace the personal in a temporary way while they carry out the function that is going to develop outside.  The example is which is referred to training outside.   Taking into account of the proper conditions of each service, it must   decide for the modality that adapts at the moment of exporting. Nevertheless, it’s convenient just like in the export of goods, to count with the appropriate legal assistance to determinate in advance the obligations of customs and exchange rate type that are acquire with the export’s occasion.

Published on November 30th 2007