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| | World Trade Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | All WTO members are required to grant one another most favoured nation status, such that (with some exceptions) trade concessions granted by a WTO member to another country must be granted to all WTO members (WTO, 2004c). | | | The WTO promotes economic globalization and free trade, which some consider problematic. | | | The GATT principles and agreements were adopted by the WTO, which was charged with administering and extending them. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization
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| | WTO World Trade Organization: WTO / GATT Home page |
| | The WTO's purpose is to broaden and enforce global free trade. | | | Expanding these corporate powers--as the WTO intends to do in Seattle and beyond--will further cripple governments and make them even less able to protect their citizens from the ravages of those entities whose only aim is to grow richer and richer and richer. | | | If the WTO succeeds in Seattle, local and national governments will be less able to protect themselves against corporate policies, or to enact their own policies where these do not further free trade. |
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http://www.gatt.org/homewto.html
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| | World Trade or World Domination? |
| | To give the expanded rules lasting power, the WTO was established in 1995 to enforce existing trade agreements and serve as a central clearinghouse through which trade relations between countries could be handled. | | | In 1996, at the Singapore Ministerial, WTO member governments declared that the issue of international labor standards fell into the purview of the United Nations' International Labor Organization. | | | Thousands of trade ministers and other government officials, including President Clinton, are expected to attend the meeting, which will set the agenda for a new three-year round of international trade negotiations. |
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/wto/talvi.html
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| | Global Exchange : Top Reasons to Oppose the WTO |
| | The policies of the WTO impact all aspects of society and the planet, but it is not a democratic, transparent institution. | | | WTO rules have hastened these trends by opening up countries to foreign investment and thereby making it easier for production to go where the labor is cheapest and most easily exploited and environmental costs are low. | | | The WTO's "most favored nation" provision requires all WTO member countries to treat each other equally and to treat all corporations from these countries equally regardless of their track record. |
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http://www.globalexchange.org/economy/rulemakers/topTenReasons.html
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| | WTO About the organization |
| | The countries that had signed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade by the end of 1994 when the WTO replaced GATT as the organization overseeing the multilateral trading system. | | | All WTO members may participate in all councils, committees, etc, except Appellate Body, Dispute Settlement panels, Textiles Monitoring Body, and plurilateral committees. | | | How countries apply to join the WTO, and the current situation. |
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http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/thewto_e.htm
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| | About the WTO (IFG) |
| | The WTO represents the rules-based regime of the policy of economic globalization. | | | Analyses of the WTO regime and case studies are included concerning major recent decisions on: environment, agriculture, intellectual property rights, culture and investment. | | | WTO’s threats to global water security: the General Agreement on Trade in Services and beyond. |
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http://www.ifg.org/analysis/wto/aboutwto.htm
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| | The WTO and Free Trade - Global Issues |
| | Pro China entry into the WTO and NTR status in the US is basically from the business community who see the large population of over a billion as more consumers to buy and consume products. | | | The effect of the 20 year period of a patent protection is to basically deny others (such as developing countries and their corporations) from developing alternatives that would be cheaper. | | | GATS is similar to the multilateral agreement on investment, except that it is withing the WTO. |
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http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/FreeTrade/WTO.asp
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| | The World Trade Organization - Social and Economic Policy - Global Policy Forum |
| | While rich countries want the WTO rules to be “the Constitution for a single global economy”, poor countries expect the WTO to deal with trade in a way that benefits all nations. | | | Shiva believes that WTO reform should prioritize the importance of food security in poor countries, and advocates tariff increases for poor countries in the face of rich countries’ dumping practices. | | | European governments use the WTO agreement on trade in services (GATS) to serve the interests of their national water corporations, says the Heinrich Böll Foundation. |
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http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/bwi-wto/indexwto.htm
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| | CorpWatch : WTO |
| | In the mid-nineties, the WTO had been sold to the global public as the lynchpin of a multilateral system of economic governance that would provide the necessary rules to facilitate the growth of global trade and the spread of its beneficial effects. | | | An in-depth analysis of the WTO's flaws, the roots of globalization and what they mean for the upcoming WTO Summit in Cancun. | | | We also produced an in-depth look at corporate influence on the WTO, it's rulings and the impact of those decisions on ordinary citizen's lives on CorpWatch.org. |
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http://www.corpwatch.org/section.php?id=112
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| | ERS/USDA Briefing Room - World Trade Organization |
| | WTO: Competing Policy Issues and Agendas for Agricultural Trade. | | | Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States (FATUS) provides U.S. agricultural exports and imports, volume and value, by country, by commodity, and by calendar year, fiscal year, and month, for varying periods, such as 1935 to the present or 1989 to the present. | | | WTO Agricultural Trade Policy Commitments Database contains data on implementation of trade policy commitments by WTO member countries. |
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http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/WTO
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| | U.S. Ag Trade and the WTO |
| | Until a few years ago, the WTO and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), have focused mostly on manufactured goods. | | | Representatives from over 145 member countries use the WTO framework to negotiate trade agreements, adjudicate trade disputes and review national trade policies. | | | Sixth WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong (December 2005) |
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http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/wto
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| | Pakissan.com; WTO: Boon or Bane for Pakistani farmers |
| | The two-day (March 18 and 19) WTO moot of G-20 countries in New Delhi has demanded a time frame from the rich countries to end subsidies to their farmers and terminate price distorting export practices to bring equity between the developed and developing nations. | | | All the government departments/agencies, autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies should quickly realign to make a comprehensive plan to cope with the challenges of WTO to be enforced from January 2005. | | | World Trade Organisation (WTO) states resumed efforts on Sunday to break a deadlock over cheap medicines for poorer countries, but officials saw no quick fix for a dispute souring the mood at global trade talks. |
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http://www.pakissan.com/english/issues/wto/index.shtml
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| | LLRX.com - Update to WTO/GATT Research |
| | NOTE: The WTO has authorized the pagination in this reporter. | | | The WTO BISD contains protocols of accession, decisions and reports adopted by WTO bodies and a few selected documents from the Uruguay Round, but not dispute panel and Appellate Body reports or arbitration awards, which are covered in numerous other sources (see Dispute Resolution below). | | | The package included the Agreement Establishing the WTO ("WTO Agreement") and the agreements annexed to it (the GATT 1994, the GATS, the TRIPS agreement, etc). |
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http://www.llrx.com/features/wto2.htm
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| | The Yes Men |
| | And at an accounting conference in Sydney, Australia, the WTO announced that in light of all its mistakes, it would shut itself down, refounding as an organization whose goals were not to help corporations, but rather to help the poor and the environment. | | | The World Trade Organization is a giant international bureaucracy whose goal is to help businesses by enforcing “free trade&;: the freedom of transnationals to do business however they see fit. | | | As the World Trade Organization, Andy and Mike delivered shocking satires of WTO policy to audiences of so-called “experts.” At an international trade law conference in Salzburg, Austria, they (i.e. |
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http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/wto.shtml
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| | IATP Trade Observatory |
| | The WTO's agriculture agreement threatens human rights by promoting a trade liberalization agenda that overrides efforts to improve livelihoods, finds a new report published by IATP and 3D: Trade-Human Rights-Equitable Economy. | | | The 2005 July General Council passes without "First Approximations." WTO members prepare for intense negotiations in the run-up to Hong Kong. | | | It aimed to bring together different constituencies working on agriculture and trade to discuss jointly the international dimensions of a just and sustainable food system and to prepare for the 2005 WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong. |
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http://www.tradeobservatory.org
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| | wto |
| | Competing countries are pressured into lowering environmental standards or facing the consequential flight of investment and jobs allowed by "free trade" agreements brokered by the WTO. | | | The WTO serves only to reinforce and expand corporate globalization and free trade. | | | The power of multinational corporations to move money in or out of a country at a moment's notice holds workers and governments hostage to quarterly profit reports. |
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http://www.campusdemocracy.org/wto.html
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| | SeattleWeekly.com - News: WTO Special Coverage |
| | Taxpayers are on the hook for WTO corporate love-in. | | | In the wake of the WTO, new faces, new tactics, new confidence. | | | Seattle makes an offer to big business: Pony up for our World Trade conference, we'll get you face time with government officials. |
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http://www.seattleweekly.com/supplements/wto
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| | Asiaweek.com Playing By The Rules 12/07/2001 |
| | The WTO will help the central government push forward with some of its more sensitive reforms, allowing bankrupt factories to shut down. | | | Eventually, the transparency required by WTO regulations will promote rule of law, meritocracy and fair play. | | | Millions of workers, officials, and other would-be capitalists are struggling to reinvent themselves as business executives who can compete in the global economy. |
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http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/enterprise/0,8782,186250,00.html
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| | WTO Accession Monitor (tdctrade.com) |
| | China's WTO Accession and Implications for Hong Kong | | | WTO Entry Unleashes Greater Opportunity and Competition in Logistics Sector | | | Deepening Reform: the Way-out for China's Banking Sector Facing the WTO Challenges |
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http://wto.tdctrade.com
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| | Seattle Times: Business |
| | WTO delegates get on with business (December 1, 1999) | | | Republican proposal would eat up State Patrol refund from WTO (January 18, 2000) | | | WTO in Seattle: Everyone has an agenda, including the turtles (November 28, 1999) |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/wto
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| | World Trade Organization (WTO) - Trade IISD |
| | As well, the WTO has been gradually moving to extend its authority into non-trade areas of domestic policy relevant to sustainable development, such as intellectual property rights, investment, services and competition policy. | | | IISD devotes particular focus to the World Trade Organization and the multilateral trade regime that it administers, exploring the wider policy externalities of its trade rules and of WTO negotiations in new areas such as services, environment and agriculture. | | | The WTO not only sets rules which circumscribe the way environmental policies may be formulated, but it also embodies more general rules which guide the flow of trillions of dollars of economic activity across the borders of the world—activity that has enormous potential to frustrate or foster sustainable development. |
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http://www.iisd.org/trade/wto
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| | WTO-CANCUN: Cotton Becomes a Litmus Test |
| | The agenda was agreed two years at a WTO ministerial meeting in the capital of Qatar. | | | As an interim measure, they have also proposed that the least developed countries be granted financial compensation for lost export revenues due to those subsidies. | | | The four African countries have submitted a proposal to the WTO that calls for an end to ”unfair subsidies&; granted by developed countries to their cotton producers. |
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http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=20080
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| | Seattle WTO apology |
| | When the conference started, we began to see signs of unrest when anti WTO banners began being hoisted as well as banners blasting the working labor practices of several big business retailers such as The Gap and Nike. | | | Many of these delegates and leaders will remember the events in Seattle vividly when business and government from our state attempts to negotiate in business negotiations or partnerships. | | | The organizations opposed to the WTO should openly condemn the environmental and social problems of several of the member nations of the organization, but they also should ENCOURAGE the continuation of free trade with these nations, as the wealth effect it generates will lead to a more educated and sophisticated society. |
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http://sorry-wto.8m.com
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| | WTO & Trade Negotiation - External Links |
| | Economic Stratagy Institute, China Trade Policy and the WTO, Testimony before House Committee on Commerce: | | | - more updated news, WTO Working Party's Draft, Changes | | | Congressional Research Service: China-US Trade Issues (part 1) |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/karyiu/WTO/links.htm
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| | Prattle in Seattle: WTO coverage misrepresented issues, protests |
| | The Uruguay Round Agreements have functioned principally to prise open markets for the benefit of transnational corporations at the expense of national economies; workers, farmers and other people; and the environment. | | | Instead, governments should review and rectify the deficiencies of the system and the WTO regime itself." | | | In addition, the WTO system, rules and procedures are undemocratic, untransparent and non-accountable and have operated to marginalize the majority of the world's people. |
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http://www.fair.org/extra/0001/wto-prattle.html
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| | World Toilet Organization |
| | Locally and worldwide, through WTO, WTC has support from government ministries and agencies, private companies, sanitation experts, and industry stalwarts. | | | World Toilet Organization (WTO) has started World Toilet College (WTC) because there was a need for an independent world body to ensure that the best standards in Toilet Design, Cleanliness, Maintenance, Quality of Work and Sanitation Technologies are kept. | | | WTC is a dedicated institution that offers training programs such as Restroom Design Course, Restroom Specialist Training Course and Ecological Sanitation Course. |
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http://www.worldtoilet.org/hp/wto_hp.htm
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| | EUROPA - Agriculture - International trade relations |
| | The breakthrough followed a European Union proposal for a new formula for calculating so-called AVEs (Ad Valorem Equivalents), the basis on which reductions in import tariffs will be calculated. | | | Today's mini-ministerial meeting of the WTO followed an earlier meeting of the so-called Five Interested Parties (EU, US, Australia, Brazil and India), which is dedicated to agricultural issues. | | | The FIPs approved a formula based on a Commission proposal for a new method to convert import tariffs into Ad Valorem Equivalents. |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/external/wto/index_en.htm
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| | Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the WTO |
| | It does this by acting as a forum for trade negotiations, settling trade disputes and assisting developing countries in trade policy issues, through technical assistance and training programmes | | | Pakistan is one of the founder Members of the WTO (since 1995), and it was also one of the founder members of the WTO’s predecessor organization the GATT which was set up in 1948. | | | The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a multilateral organization whose objective is to help trade flow smoothly, freely, fairly and predictably. |
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http://www.wto-pakistan.org
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| | World Trade Organisation |
| | Information on range of issues related to Trade covered by WTO agreements on Goods, Services and Intellectual Property Rights. | | | --FAQs, Information on WTO's organization Structure, Membership, Decision Making process, Secretariat, publications etc…click here | | | This is where you can find all legal texts and over 100,000 official documents produced by or for the WTO's councils, committees, working groups, etc. The information contained include Uruguay Round agreements, Multilateral Agreements on Trade in Goods, Serrvices and IPRs. |
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http://www.smenetwork.net/wto/index.asp
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| | WTO Economic research and analysis - bibliography - bibliography search |
| | General (macroeconomic policies aid, trade policy, trade flows) | | | The WTO is not responsible for the content of any of these external sites. | | | The non-WTO studies in this database are offered for your consideration They do not necessarily reflect the views of the WTO Secretariat or of members of the WTO. |
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http://forms.wto.org/eradbibliographie/bibliography_search_e.htm
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| | Java Colleen's Eclectic Links: WTO |
| | Trade Watch: from Public Citizen (founded by Ralph Nader) | | | National Labor Committee: In support of human and worker rights | | | WTO History Project: Center for Labor Studies - University of Washington |
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http://www.javacolleen.com/wto.html
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| | WTO APPELLATE BODY CONDEMNS THE "BYRD AMENDMENT" - THE US MUST NOW REPEAL IT |
| | Offset payments constitute a remedy in addition to the imposition of an anti-dumping or anti-subsidy duty, and this remedy is not envisaged in the WTO legislation. | | | Once dumping or subsidisation has been established, the offset payments flow automatically and confer a competitive advantage to the US industry, which may be eliminated only if dumping or subsidisation has first ceased. | | | US government to distribute the collected anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties to the US companies that brought the cases in the first place, is incompatible with WTO rules. |
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http://www.eurunion.org/news/press/2003/2003003.htm
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| | CNN - Curfew in effect as Seattle struggles to control WTO protests - November 30, 1999 |
| | The mission of the WTO is to create a prospering global economy, increasing the flow of goods and services around the world. | | | But critics argue most of the planet's population will not benefit from WTO actions and may, in fact, be harmed by them. | | | "The WTO is going to write the framework that will dictate how global commerce is done and our problem is that the vast majority of people in the world (have no representative to speak on their behalf at the Seattle conference)," said Chuck Collins, co-director of United for a Fair Economy. |
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http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/30/wto.04
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| | WTO |
| | Meetings of the Working Party on Russia's WTO Accession | | | The Fifth Ministerial Conference of the WTO members | | | “Accession to the WTO, in case it takes place in 2006, will provide a most powerful impulse to the rise of the country’s investment appeal and the growth of its economy. |
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http://www.wto.ru/en/newsmain.asp
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| | ICTSD - WTO Ministerial Section - Home |
| | Since the first WTO Ministerial Conference in 1996, ICTSD has been providing its audience with tools to gain a better understanding of the issues that emerge at the crossroads between trade and sustainable development during the lead-up, duration, and aftermath of the Conferences. | | | me to ICTSD's World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Section. | | | ICTSD's WTO Ministerial archives contain information, news and analysis from all past WTO Ministerials. |
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http://www.ictsd.org/ministerial
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| | Welcome to US-CHINA Business Council |
| | Review of China's Services Implementation: At Your Service | | | Letter from the President of the USCBC: WTO: Toward Year Two | | | China's WTO Scorecard: Selected Year-Three Service Commitments, [pdf] |
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http://www.uschina.org/public/wto
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| | ::: WTO Seattle Collection ::: |
| | To perform phrase searching select 'Other Search Options' above. | | | The protests depicted in this collection took place between November 29, 1999 and December 3, 1999, when the World Trade Organization (WTO) held its ministerial meeting in Seattle. | | | This collection of images was chosen to illustrate both the diversity of the protests and the mobilization efforts that brought so many activists to Seattle. |
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http://content.lib.washington.edu/wtoweb
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| | World Tourism Organization (WTO) |
| | WTO World Tourism Barometer: international tourism on track for another strong year | | | Bali Tourism Board mobilises relief and humanitarian resources for the victims of the terrorist attack of last Saturday |
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http://www.world-tourism.org
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