Description
This publication is a sequel to the highly successful Business Guide to the Uruguay Round.
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). This edition contains updates on new developments which have taken place since 1996. It also contains a new section on the six trade-related subject areas: trade and environment, trade and investment, competition policy, transparency in government and procurement, trade facilitation and electronic commerce. A thorough understanding of the World Trading System is critical to increasing the competitiveness of enterprises in Commonwealth countries. This publication will be an essential tool to the international business community and will help business leaders to better understand the implications of the WTO Agreements and how to apply the various provisions and rules to their day-to-day business decisions.
Published jointly by the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Boxes
Note
Introduction
Overview
PART ONE: The World Trade Organization: Its Role and Functions
Chapter 1: WTO: 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: Rules of origin
Chapter 13: Trade-related investment measures
Chapter 14: Agreements on Textiles and Clothing
Chapter 15: Agreement on Agriculture
Chapter 16: Rules of market access negotiations
PART THREE: International Rules Governing Trade in Services
Chapter 17: General Agreement on Trade in Services
PART FOUR: Government Procurement and State Trading
Chapter 18: Government Procurement
Chapter 19: State Trading
PART FIVE: Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Chapter 20: Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
PART SIX: Subjects Added to the WTO Work Programme for Study and Analysis
Chapter 21: Trade and environment
Chapter 22: Trade and investment
Chapter 23: Trade and competition policy
Chapter 24: Transparency in government procurement practices
Chapter 25: Trade facilitation
Chapter 26: Electronic commerce
Index