The Uruguay Round was an important set of multilateral trade negotiations, with far-rearching implications for world growth and trade. This is a concise analysis of the key provisions and economic implications of the Final Act of the Uruguay Round of the GATT Agreement.
This book provides trade negotiators with an indispensable tool that will help them formulate their negotiating objectives and strategies in the area of tariffs; it also provides policy analysts with key data that are necessary to define negotiating scenarios and to impute the impacts.
International experts from law, economics and political science provide in-depth analysis of international trade issues. Attorneys, economists and political scientists adopt a common viewpoint, entitled 'transcending the ostensible'. This approach directs particular attention to the possibility that WTO legal institutions, like other international legal institutions, will function in unexpected ways due to the political and economic conditions of the international environment in which they have been created, and in which they operate. A range of trade problems are considered here. Topics include the constitutional dimensions of international trade law, adding subjects and restructuring existing subjects to international trade law, the legal relations between developed and developing countries, and the operation of the WTO dispute settlement procedure. This will be an essential volume for professionals and academics involved with international trade policy.
A comprehensive account of the establishment of the World Trade Organization, focusing on those who shaped its creation as well as those who have influenced its evolution. The book examines trade negotiations, the WTO's dispute settlement role, the presence of coalitions and groupings within the WTO, the process of joining the organization and many other topics, including what lies ahead for the organization.
Argues that prosperity has rarely, if ever, been achieved or sustained without trade. Trade alone, however, is not enough; policies targeting employment, education, health and other issues are also needed to promote well-being and tackle the challenges of a globalised economy.
Tracing the history and evolution of the Uruguay Round, this book seeks to explain how it came about, why it covered the subjects it did, what the participants sought, & the twists, turns, setbacks & successes in each sector of the negotiations.
On the 20th of December 1991, Arthur Dunkel, Secretary General of General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT), released a "final draft act" incorporating a comprehensive text covering all the various aspects of the Uruguay Round of Negotiations covering agricultural subsidies, intellectual property, trade in services, antidumping & countervailing duties, trade related investment, dispute settlement & other topics. The significance of this report is its future impact on world trade & international relations. 2nd printing William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1992