World Trade Organization Sample Clauses

World Trade Organization. The Relationship Between The Trips Agreement and The Convention On Biological Diversity Paper, 2006. Available at: xxxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/ english/tratop_e/trips_e/ipcw368_e.pdf 20 Cf. International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. United Nations, 1991, Article 5.
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World Trade Organization. Notes: * The convention has thirty-one annexes, not all of which have entered into force and many of which are in force only for certain parties. Convention on the limitation period in the international sale of goods. Done at New York June 14, 1974. Entered into force August 1, 1988; for the United States December 1, 1994. TIAS Amendment: April 11, 1980 Depositary: United Nations United Nations convention on contracts for the international sale of goods. Done at Vienna April 11, 1980. Entered into force January 1, 1988. TIAS; 1489 UNTS 3 Depositary: United Nations International convention on the harmonized commodity description and coding system. Done at Brussels June 14, 1983. Entered into force January 1, 1988; for the United States January 1, 1989. TIAS Amendment: June 24, 1986 Depositary: World Customs Organization North American free trade agreement, with notes and annexes. Signed at Washington, Ottawa and Mexico December 8, 11, 14 and 17, 1992. Entered into force January 1, 1994. TIAS Parties Canada Mexico United States The following agreements comprise the 1986 – 1994 Uruguay Round negotiations of the GATT/World Trade Organization. These agreements were signed at the Marrakesh ministerial meetings in April of 1994, and entered into force January 1, 1995. Depositary: World Trade Organization • Marrakesh agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO). • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1994. • Agreement on agriculture. • Agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures. • Agreement on textiles and clothing. • Agreement on technical barriers to trade. • Agreement on trade-related investment measures. • Agreement on implementation of Article VI (Anti- Dumping) of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994. • Agreement on implementation of Article VII (Customs Valuation) of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994. • Agreement on preshipment inspection. • Agreement on government procurement. • Agreement on rules of origin. • Agreement on import licensing procedures. • Agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures. • Agreement on safeguards. • General agreement on trade in services and annexes, with protocols. • Agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights. • Understanding on rules and procedures governing the settlement of disputes. • Trade policy review mechanism. • International bovine meat agreement Grains trade convention (part of international grains agreement), 1995. Done a...
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World Trade Organization. The WTO is an institution whose primary purpose is to establish trade, free of obstacles and open for the benefit of all involved actors by providing a discussion platform with a legal and institutional framework concerning international trade. Agreements cover trade in goods, services as well as intellectual property and are not static in nature but can be renegotiated and extended by new agreements on liberalisation, exceptions and commitments to lower trade barriers. Beside the WTO the IMF and the World Bank, which do not receive a more detailed consideration in this examination, are major international organisations in the course of trade and economic policy on a global scale. As part of the present study, two main activities of the WTO can be considered as of particular relevance. Firstly the reduction or elimination of obstacles to trade in the light of tariff and non-tariff trade barriers and second the administering and monitoring of the application of the rules for trade in goods agreed in this context [WTO 2012]. Currently there are 157 member countries. Related to the defined examination area only the Customs Union RBK member countries Belarus and Kazakhstan are non-member countries of the WTO. Presently these countries are also preparing to join the WTO in order to avoid mid to long term disadvantages in competitiveness of their domestic industry due to higher duties. However, an accession is likely from 2013 onwards. Relevant current and potential future developments‌ Russia's World Trade Organization accession By joining the WTO on 22/8/2012 after a negotiation period of about 18 years Russia is the latest member of this organisation. As a part of the agreement Russia commits to meet the international trading rules and standards of the WTO. Since the trade linkages between Russia and the EU have increased sharply in recent years and both have become an important trading partner for each other this accession is a consequent step towards a further opening of Russia to the world market, its integration and the further improvement of the conditions of trade and investment. Inter alia Russia agrees to lower its import duties and to limit its export duties, to grant greater market access for EU goods and service providers, to facilitate rules and procedures affecting bilateral economic relations and especially to revise regulations on customs procedures. For raw materials like oil and gas providing the lion’s share of the EU imports from Russia as ...
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World Trade Organization. The WTO grew out of and replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1995. The WTO/GATT is an international organisation and a Bretton Xxxxx institution, and just like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it is based on neoliberal ideas of development and economic growth through free trade. The WTO (2014e) states that “the opening of national markets to international trade, with justifiable exceptions or with adequate flexibilities, will encourage and contribute to sustainable development, raise people's welfare, reduce poverty, and xxxxxx peace and stability.”. The WTO is “the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade between nations” (WTO, 2014f). The organisation makes most decisions based on consensus between its members, making the process long, but the result significant. The highest decision making body is the Ministerial Conferences (MC) held approximately every second year. The last MC was the MC9 in Bali, December 2013. The next round is taking place in Nairobi, Kenya in December 2015. Between the MCs the General Council, where all members are present, leads the WTO (WTO, 2014e). The WTO works on the guiding principles of open borders, the Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN)- principle, non-discrimination among members, and organizational transparency. The MFN principle ensures that countries normally cannot “discriminate between their trading partners” and must grant all WTO members the same treatment. The organisation is structured around three pillars: the negotiations, implementation and monitoring, and the dispute settlement pillar. The WTO is currently in its 14th year of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). Starting in 2001, the DDA round and work program introduced a range of new aspects: “[It] adds negotiations and other work on non-agricultural tariffs, trade and environment, WTO rules such as anti-dumping and subsidies, investment, competition policy, trade facilitation, transparency in government procurement, intellectual property, and a range of issues raised by developing countries as difficulties they face in implementing the present WTO agreements.” (WTO, 2014d). The DDA have put forward many ambitious goals. The downside is that we have not been able to reach a multilateral agreement and finish the DDA in 14 years. The deadline was originally set to 1 January 2005, but has been broken a multitude of times after that. The WTO members now seem to be heading back on the right c...
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