CONTENTS:- Foreword; Preface; Overview of GATT, Tokyo Round, Uruguay Round; Basic Principles and main Elements of the WTO agreements; Most favored nation treatment; Tariff; Safeguard; Balance of payment Provisions: Article XVIIIB of GATT 1994; Subsidy and Countervailing Duty; Anti Dumping; Agriculture; Textiles and Clothing; Technical Barriers to Trade; Customs Valuation; Rules of Origin; Import Licensing; Trade-Related Investment Measures; State Trading Enterprises; Services; Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights; Plurilateral Agreements; Dispute Settlement Process; Institutions and Decision Making;
DESCRIPTION
The World Trade Organisation (WTO), the successor to GATT, is rapidly establishing itself as the third pillar of the Bretton Woods institutions alongside the World Bank and the IMF. The prolonged international negotiations which led to its establishment have produced a complex set of agreements which not only constitutes the most profound revision of the rules governing world trade, but extended these rules into a range of issues and economic sector not hitherto regarding as falling with in its ambit. The book, by an author who was intimately involved in the Uruguay Round which led to creation of the WTO, is an indispensable and concise explanation of what the WTO Agreements actually provided for. It deals with the full range of technical provisions and issues, explaning where necessary the background, terms involved, and implications of the new provisions.
