The East Asian initiative examined in this section is a plurilateral PTA among the East Asian members identified in the model (all regions except the rest of the world). In the first instance, it is assumed that each PTA member grants the other members full national treatment in the application of regulations in those services sectors for which quantitative estimates are available. This means that under the PTA, foreign services providers from PTA partner countries are treated no less favourably than domestic providers in these sectors. In most instances, this means that the tax or productivity equivalents of the regulations affecting foreign providers (shown in Tables 2 to 6) are reduced so as to be the same as those affecting domestic providers.6 In keeping with recent PTAs, the air passenger transport sector is excluded from the PTA altogether (as it is from the GATS).