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| | The World Trade Organization |
 | | The basic aim of the WTO is to liberalize world trade and place it on a secure basis, thereby contributing to economic growth and development. | | | The World Trade Organization (WTO), established on January 1, 1995, is a multilateral institution charged with administering rules for trade among member countries. | | | The WTO also serves as a platform for countries to raise their concerns regarding the trade policies of their trading partners. |
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http://www.fas.usda.gov/info/factsheets/wto.html
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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 World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international, multilateral organization, which sets the rules for the global trading system and resolves disputes between its member states, all of whom are signatories to its about 30 agreements. | | | The sixth WTO Conference Ministerial was held in Hong Kong from December 13 - December 18, 2005. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Profile: World Trade Organization |
| | WTO lacks democratic accountability, in that its hearings on trade disputes are closed to the public and the media. | | | Based in Geneva, the WTO was set up in 1995, replacing another international organisation known as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt). | | | Whereas Gatt regulated trade in merchandise goods, the WTO also covers trade in services, such as telecommunications and banking, and other issues such as intellectual property rights. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/2429503.stm
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| | World Trade Organization |
| | One of the WTO’s purposes is to oversee the administration and functioning of the multilateral trade agreements, including the dispute settlement system. | | | They require governments to make their trade policies transparent by notifying the WTO about laws in force and measures adopted, and through regular reports by the Trade Policy Review Body on countries' trade policies. | | | The World Trade Organization (WTO), established January 1, 1995, is the central body of the multilateral trading system. |
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http://www.ei.gov.bc.ca/ProgramsAndServices/Trade/WTO.htm
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| | World Trade Organization (WTO) |
| | The WTO is empowered to enforce global commerce rules with the imposition of economic sanctions. | | | The WTO transformed the GATT, which focused primarily on tariff and quotas, into a new global commerce agency with the same legal status as the United Nations. | | | Thus, even if a WTO member has laws prohibiting domestic child labor, it could not choose to ban imported items made with slave or child labor, both of which are prohibited by the ILO's core labor standards. |
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/WTO_MAI/The_WTO.html
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| | ERS/USDA Briefing Room - World Trade Organization |
| | 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. | | | Agricultural trade barriers and producer subsidies inflict real costs on the countries that use these policies and on their trade partners. | | | WTO: Competing Policy Issues and Agendas for Agricultural Trade. |
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http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/WTO
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| | THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION |
| | The W.T.O. is negotiating a reduction in trade barriers; It is negotiating rules for foreign investment; and financial services like banks and insurance companies with customers in other countries. | | | Because trade is the most significant way that human beings increase the results of individual exertions, it must be an irresistible source of revenue. | | | The W.T.O. is an organization of corporations and the governments that represent them -- in the process of negotiating the opening of each other's markets, and investment opportunities. |
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| | LLRX.com - Update to WTO/GATT Research |
| | Its aim is to enhance the transparency of the trade policies of the member states. | | | The Trade Policy Review Body (TPRB) (which is actually the General Council, i.e., the full membership, under a different name) conducts each review on the basis of a policy statement submitted by the member state and a report prepared by economists in the Secretariat's Trade Policy Review Division. | | | Each member state's trade policies are reviewed periodically according to a schedule based upon its share of world trade. |
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http://www.llrx.com/features/wto2.htm
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| | World Trade Organization |
| | As a direct descendant of Bretton Woods, which supposedly eliminated the profitability of currency transactions, the WTO may be somewhat reluctant to include such transactions in its jurisdiction. | | | A weakness that WTO shares with its progenitor, GATT, is the relative unenforceability of its conflict resolution decisions. | | | Founded as a result of the Havana Charter of 1948, the ITO was to be an organization that would ensure fairness in world trade, resolve disputes between members, and institute coverage for the emerging markets in services and intellectual property rights, as well as direct investment. |
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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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| | Issues No.160 |
| | It is obvious that the role and goal of the WTO is not only an issue of economic decisions and trade but of values and differing points of view. | | | The US is the world's leading trader in goods and services, accounting for about 14 percent of world exports and about 16 percent of imports. | | | For over half a century the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and then the World Trade Organization (WTO) have played a key part in reducing barriers to trade, strengthening international laws, and encouraging economic development in a world that has become increasingly integrated. |
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http://www.globaled.org/issues/160
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| | Public Citizen WTO - World Trade Organization - World Trade Organization (WTO) |
| | The WTO is one of the main mechanisms of corporate globalization. | | | Established in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a powerful new global commerce agency, which transformed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) into an enforceable global commerce code. | | | Decisions affecting the economy are to be confined to the private sector, while social and environmental costs are borne by the public. |
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http://www.citizen.org/trade/wto/index.cfm
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| | IATP Trade Observatory |
| | The General Agreement on Trade in Services was first established as one of the agreements to be enforced by the WTO in 1995. | | | A watered-down agreement announced late last night by the World Trade Organization at the Hong Kong ministerial reflects the struggles of a deeply flawed Doha Round that is far off-track, according to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. | | | 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. |
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http://www.tradeobservatory.org
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| | The WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION |
| | The idea of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was initially created in 1948 as the International Trade Organization (ITO), a distinct entity within the United Nations organizational collective to reduce customs tariffs and increase trade to boost a global economy so devastated by World War II. | | | Until 1995, with the formation of the WTO, the vast majority of the agreements retained their original provisions; although periodically amended through the use of negotiations called "trade rounds" named after the host country. | | | State department officials say the world trade system’s "free rider" problem is solved since only those nations belonging to and adhering to the WTO’s arrangements can reap the benefits of lower tariffs and more open markets (State Dept.). |
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| | WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION |
| | ANDERSON, K. The future agenda of the WTO. | | | Efficiency, equity and legitimacy : the multilateral trading system at the Millennium / ed. | | | ACCREDITATION schemes and other arrangements for public participation in international fora : a contribution to the debate on WTO and transparency. |
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http://www.ppl.nl/hugo/WTObibliographywtoa-f.htm
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| | World Trade Organization |
| | Federal Corporation Taxes - Most large corporations are classified as C corporations and are required to file a federal... | | | An introduction to the WTO and GATT.(World Trade Organization, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) | | | Unlike GATT, the WTO is a permanent body but not a specialized agency of the |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0852741.html
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| | World Trade Organization |
| | Information is provided on WTO trade topics, which include development, environment, trade policy reviews, regionalism and dispute settlement. | | | The report provides brief profiles of the market and economic characteristics of each of the major agricultural commodities, and assessments of the relevance of World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiating issues and "status of implementation of various policy measures" for the 16 major traded commodities. | | | This includes the text of the SPS agreement for trade between members, which directs member governments in applying food safety and animal and plant health measures. |
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| | Globalization and the World Trade Organization |
| | 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. | | | This primer is a basic briefing on the powers, structure, rules, powers, and values of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the agreements it encompasses. |
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http://www.ifg.org/wto.html
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| | World Trade Organizaiton (WTO) |
| | Reform of the WTO is the Wrong Agenda | | | stopping the WTO is at best, a first step toward creating rules for the gobal economy that tame corporate power and protect popular aims and democratic processes. | | | The WTO - Five years of reasons to resist corporate globalization |
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/WTO_MAI/WTO.html
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| | Law of the World Trade Organization (WTO): Panel Decisions (Reports of the Appellate Body) by Lyonette Louis-Jacques |
| | Law of the World Trade Organization (WTO): Panel Decisions (Reports of the Appellate Body) by Lyonette Louis-Jacques | | | Dispute Settlement (Organization of American States Trade Unit's Foreign Trade Information System = Sistema de Información al Comercio Exterior page containing full text of WTO Adopted Panel Reports, Appellate Body Reports, Arbitrator's Reports and Mutually Acceptable Solutions (1996 - 1998); also includes GATT, NAFTA, and Andean Community decisions) | | | Dispute Settlement (World Trade Organization (WTO) page for full texts of Panel Reports, Appellate Body Reports, Arbitrator's Reports, Mutually Acceptable Solutions, and other |
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http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/wto.html
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| | Membership requirements and cost vary according to the World Trade Center. | | | WTCA's Calendar of Events is loaded with seminars, conferences, trade fairs, exhibitions and other events for the international business community. | | | Don’t miss the excellent opportunities to expand your business into China and increase global business network! |
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http://world.wtca.org
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| | World Trade Organization |
| | Whether you are an international trade policy specialist, a reporter covering breaking news on the WTO Ministerial, or a citizen interested in learning more about global trade, you've come to the right place. | | | We invite you to make WTO WATCH your home on trade, the WTO, and sustainable development issues and to help build this valuable resource. | | | Categorized links to trade resources around the world. |
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| | Xinhua - English |
| | Afghanistan submitted an application for membership to the World Trade Organization. | | | BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- As the first Afghan democratically elected President was swore in on Tuesday, the long war-torn country also submitted an application for membership to the World Trade Organization. | | | "United States supports the application of Afghanistan and Iraq of the membership of the World Trade Organization, and we believe there are broad supports within the organization for these applications." |
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/09/content_2312264.htm
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| | WTO Trade Statistics |
| | Annual publication including detailed analysis and tables for 2004 (leading traders, trade by sector and product, regional trade, LDCs, etc.). | | | > Inter-agency Task Force on International Merchandise Trade Statistics | | | Interactive access to the most up-to-date WTO trade statistics (opens in a new window) |
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http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm
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| | WTO Welcome to the WTO website |
| | The Appellate Body, on 13 April 2006, issued its report regarding the compliance panel report in the case “United States — Investigation of the International Trade Commission in Softwood Lumber from Canada” (DS277). | | | > 35th and 36th WTO Trade Policy Courses end. | | | Appellate Body issues report on compliance in softwood lumber dispute |
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