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Business Guide to the Uruguay Round  

Size: A5 (210 mm x 148 mm)
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Categories: World Trade

ISBN No: 978-0-85092-454-1

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Publication Date: 1995
Number of Pages: 398

Status: Out of print

Price: £ 60.00    [Currency converter]  


Description

This guide explains the rules of the Uruguay Round trade agreements and their implementation. It provides an overview of achievements of the Uruguay Round and the legal system established by it and explains the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It also presents the rules applicable to trade and examines their implications for trade liberalization, reviewing the main features of General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the rules applicable to government procurement and state trading and it describes the provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

Published jointly by the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC) and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Boxes

Note

Introduction

 

Overview

 

PART ONE: World Trade Organisation: Its Role and Functions

Chapter 1: World Trade Organisation: Forum for Negotiations, Dispute Settlement and Trade Policy Reviews

 

PART TWO: International Rules Governing Trade in Goods (GATT 1994 and its Associate Agreements)

Chapter 2: Four Main Rules of GATT

Chapter 3: Valuation of Goods for Customs Purposes

Chapter 4: Preshipment Inspection

Chapter 5: Mandatory and Voluntary Product Standards and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Regulations

Chapter 6: Import Licensing Procedures

Chapter 7: Rules Applicable to Exports

Chapter 8: Rules Governing Subsidies on Industrial Products

Chapter 9: Safeguard Measures to Restrict Imports in Emergency Situations

Chapter 10: Safeguard Actions for Economic Development Purposes: Special Flexibility Available to Developing Countries

Chapter 11: Response to Unfair Trade Practices: Rules on the Use of Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Duties

Chapter 12: Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs)

Chapter 13: Market Access Negotiations in the Industrial and Agricultural Trading Sectors (Agreements on Textiles and Clothing and on Agriculture)

 

PART THREE: International Rules Governing Trade in Services

Chapter 14: General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)

 

PART FOUR: Government Procurement and State Trading

Chapter 15: Government Procurement

Chapter 16: State Trading

 

PART FIVE: Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

Chapter 17: Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

 

Appendices

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Publication Date: 1999
Stock Status: In stock

Format:
ISBN No: 978-0-85092-621-7
Price: £ 40.00     [Currency converter]

This publication is a sequel to the highly successful Business Guide to the Uruguay Round.

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