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Encyclopedia: World Trade Organization

For other uses, see WTO (disambiguation).

The World Trade Organization (WTO) (OMC - French: Organisation Mondiale du Commerce, Spanish: Organización Mundial del Comercio) is an international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade. The WTO came into being on January 1, 1995, and is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was created in 1947, and continued to operate for almost five decades as a de facto international organization.

The WTO deals with the rules of trade between nations at a global or near-global level; it is responsible for negotiating and implementing new trade agreements, and is in charge of policing member countries' adherence to all the WTO agreements, signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments.^[3] Most of the WTO's current work comes from the 1986-94 negotiations called the Uruguay Round, and earlier negotiations under the GATT. The organization is currently the host to new negotiations, under the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) launched in 2001.^[4]

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How to say "World Trade Organization" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	世界贸易组织
	(Japanese)	世界貿易機関
	(German)	Welthandelsorganisation
	(Spanish)	Organización Mundial del Comercio
	(French)	Organisation mondiale du commerce
	(Italian)	Organizzazione Mondiale del Commercio

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Trade Expansion Act

The Trade Expansion Act of 1962 authorized tariff cuts of 50% with the European Common Market. It led to the 1967 Kennedy Round of tariff negotiations reducing tariffs. See also: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade World Trade Organization...

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Supachai Panitchpakdi

elected to become director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), sharing the post with... Supachai Panitchpakdi (born 1946 in Bangkok, Thailand) is director-general of the World Trade... Trade Organization Incumbent...

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CorpWatch

campaigns against Nike sweatshops and the World Trade Organization... CorpWatch (formerly: TRAC Transnational Resource & Action Center ) is a globalization-critical organization based in San Francisco, California, USA. The group advocates democracy, environmentalism...

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Import tariff

An import tariff is a schedule of duties imposed by a country on imported goods, hence the name. In the United States and other countries, tariffs are controversive, and the World Trade Organization has attempted to minimize import tariffs. See also: GATT...

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Foreign relations of Aruba

The Netherlands Antilles conducts foreign affairs primarily through the Dutch government, however, Aruba has strong relations with other Caribbean governments. Aruba is an observer in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), an associate member of the World Trade Organization through the Netherlands and...

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Director-General of the World Trade Organization

The Director-General of the World Trade Organization holds the highest permanent office of the World Trade Organization, and is responsible for supervising the administrative functions of the organization. Because World Trade Organizations are made by member states (through either a Ministerial...

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OMC

Organisation mondiale du commerce (French for World Trade Organization) Osaka Medical College Osceloa...

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Most favored nation

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Cairns Group

bring about world-wide free trade in agricultural products by multilateral negotiations, in particular under the auspices of the World Trade Organization. In particular, they aim to abolish export subsidies and trade-distorting ("amber box") domestic support measures for agricultural products and seek...

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Food First

policies of such "free market" institutions as the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank, and... approach to solving world hunger, asserting the ability of all countries to feed their own people if they... proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Food First official site...

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