The General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade (Gatt) Act Of 1947

18. Dezember 2020

Petros Mavroidis, Trade in Goods: The GATT and the Other WTO Agreements Regulating Trade in Goods, 2d ed. (TRLN Shared Print K4600 . M393 2012 and online) provides historical and economic justification for the development of the multilateral trading system, while providing an analysis of WTO jurisprudence and product trade. The agreement also created the World Trade Organization (WTO), which came into force on 1 January 1995. The WTO implements the agreement, provides a forum for negotiating additional trade barriers and the settlement of political disputes, and enforces trade rules. The WTO launched the ninth round of multilateral trade negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda (DDP or Doha Round) in 2001. The WTO website contains information on the Doha Round, including links to the texts generated by the negotiations and information on upcoming meetings. Online documents on the WTO website contain links to WTO legal texts and official documents (including the texts of WTO agreements) as well as on GATT documents. The Uruguay Round Agricultural Agreement remains the most important agreement in the history of trade negotiations for the liberalisation of agricultural trade. The aim of the agreement was to improve market access for agricultural products, reduce national aid to agriculture in the form of price-distorting subsidies and quotas, eliminate agricultural export subsidies over time and harmonize health and plant health measures among Member States as much as possible.

The final act on the outcomes of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade agreements consists of the final act itself, the WTO agreement („WTO agreement“) and the agreements attached to it, as well as additional GATT agreements, decisions and declarations. The text can be found in various sources: 1867 U.N.T.S. 3, 33 I.L.M 9 (1994) (December 1993) and 33 I.M 1143 (April 1994) (April 1994), The Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations (K4603 1987). A3 1994), The Legal Texts: The Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations (K4603 1987.A4 1999), nachdruck der Ergebnisse der Uruguay Round multilaterale Handelsverhandlungens: Die Rechtstexte (Perkins/Bostock Ref.