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Description
The World Trade Organisation (WTO), the successor to GATT, is rapidly establishing itself as the third pillar of the Bretton Woods institutions alongside the World Bank and the IMF. The prolonged International negotiations which led to its establishment have produced a complex set of agreements which not only constitute the most profound revision of the rules governing world trade, but extend these rules into a range of issues and economic sectors not hitherto regarded as falling within its ambit. This book, by an author who was intimately involved in the Uruguay Round which led to the creation of the WTO, is .an indispensable and concise explanation of what the WTO Agreements actually provide for. It deals with the full range of technical provisions and issues, explaining where necessary the background, terms involved, and implications of the new provisions.
The many subjects covered include the basic principles and main elements of GATT , the most favoured nation clause, tariffs, balance of payments provisions, subsidies and countervailing duties, antidumping, technical barriers to trade, rules of origin, import licensing, trade related investment measures (TRIMs), state trading enterprises, intellectual property rights, services, and the dispute settlement process.
Together with its companion volume which critically examines the, Agreements from the point of view of the developing countries, it provides public officials, NGO leaders and economists in general with an essential explanation of the new rules governing world trade.
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Contents
Chapter 1 - Overview of Gatt, Tokyo Round, Uruguay round
Chapter 2 - Basic principles and main elements of the WTO agreements
Chapter 3 - Most-favoured-nation treatment
Chapter 4 - National treatment
Chapter 5 - Tariff
Chapter 6 - Safeguard
Chapter 7 - Balance of payment provisions (article XVIII B of GATT 1994)
Chapter 8 - Subsidy and countervailing duty
Chapter 9 - Anti-dumping
Chapter 10 - Agriculture
Chapter 11 - Textiles and clothing
Chapter 12 - Technical barriers to trade
Chapter 13 - Customs valuation
Chapter 14 - Rules of origin
Chapter 15 - Import licensing
Chapter 16 - Trade-related investment measures
Chapter 17 - State trading enterprises
Chapter 18 - Services
Chapter 19 - Trade-related intellectual property rights
Chapter 20 - Plurilateral agreements
Chapter 21 - Dispute settlement process
Chapter 22 - Institutions and decision making
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Author Details
Bhagirath Lal Das is an expert on international trade, formerly Director of International Trade Programmes in UNCTAD, and also former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the GATT.
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