Work needs to be done, for example, when it comes to trade in services, the capital markets union and the digital sector. 3.1 Free trade in services It is partly by their very nature that services are more difficult to trade over long distances than goods. Ordering a book in Paris while located in Berlin is easy. Visiting a hairdresser is trickier.
But this alone does not explain why there is so much less cross-border trade in services than in goods. [9] There are also home-grown barriers to trade.