World Trade Organization World Trade Organization The Agreement on Agriculture is an international treaty of the World Trade Organisation. It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and entered into force with the establishment of the WTO on January 1 1995. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agreement on Agriculture"
The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade - also known as the TBT Agreement is an international treaty of the World Trade Organization. It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and entered into force with the establishment of the WTO at the beginning of 1995. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade"
The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures - also known as the SPS Agreement is an international treaty of the World Trade Organization. It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and entered into force with the establishment of the WTO at the beginning of 1995. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures"
The WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) is an international treaty which sets down minimum standards for most forms of intellectual property regulation within all member countries of the WTO. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights"
The GATS agreement covers " four modes of supply" for the delivery of services in cross-border trade: ...more on Wikipedia about "Four Modes of Supply"
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (typically abbreviated GATT) functioned as the precursor to the World Trade Organization trading system. GATT was created by the Bretton Woods meetings that took place in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944, setting out a plan for economic recovering post World War II. This first version of GATT is referred to as "GATT 1947". In 1994, GATT was again updated with new obligations upon its signatories. One of the most significant changes made in GATT (or "GATT 1994") was the creation of the World Trade Organization ( WTO). 75 of the GATT members and the European Communities are the founding members of WTO on 1.1.1995. Other 52 of the GATT members rejoined WTO in the next 2 years (the last is Congo in 1997). After the WTO founding 21 new (non-GATT) members have joined and 28 are currently negotiating their membership. Of the former GATT members only SFR Yugoslavia has not rejoined (and it's already impossible). Since FR Yugoslavia (renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and with membership negotiations later split in two) is not recognised as direct SFRY sucessor state its application is considered a new one, non-GATT. ...more on Wikipedia about "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade"
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is a treaty of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that entered into force in January 1995 as a result of the Uruguay Round negotiations. The treaty was created to extend the multilateral trading system to services, in the same way the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) provides such a system for merchandise trade. ...more on Wikipedia about "General Agreement on Trade in Services"
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The Hong Kong People’s Alliance on WTO ( Traditional Chinese: 民間監察世貿聯盟; often abbreviated as HKPA) is a grassroots organization that aims to protest at the WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 which will be held in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai North on December 13 - December 18, 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hong Kong People's Alliance on WTO"
The International Services Trade Information Agency (ISTIA) is being founded as a non-profit international agency in Geneva, Switzerland. The ISTIA mandate is to provide capacity building to developing countries, least developed countries and economies in transition to collect, analyze and interpret trade in services information, including information relevant to foreign direct investment ( FDI) and Foreign Affiliate Trade Statistics ( FATS) in a manner which empowers them to participate more actively in trade in services negotiations, most notably in the context of the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO). ...more on Wikipedia about "International Services Trade Information Agency"
The Causse du Larzac is a limestone karst plateau in the south of the Massif Central, France. It is an agricultural area, where sheep are bred to produce milk for Roquefort cheese. ...more on Wikipedia about "Larzac"
The Marrakesh Agreement, signed in Marrakech, Morocco, on April 15, 1994, established the World Trade Organization, which came into being upon its entry into force on January 1, 1995. The Marrakesh Agreement developed out of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which it includes; but it supplemented it with several other agreements, on such issues as trade in services, sanitary and plant health measures, trade-related aspects of intellectual property, and technical barriers to trade. It also established a new, more efficient and legally binding means of dispute resolution. The various agreements which make up the Marrakesh Agreement combine as an indivisible whole; no entity can be party to any one agreement without being party to them all. It was the culmination of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations originally launched in 1986. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marrakesh Agreement"
Most favoured nation (MFN, called normal trade relations in the USA) is a status accorded by one nation to another in international trade. Somewhat counterintuitively, it does not confer particular advantages on the receiving nation, but means that the receiving nation will be granted all trade advantages (such as low tariffs) that any third nation also receives. In effect, having MFN status means that one's nation will not be treated worse than anyone else's nation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Most favoured nation"
Non-tariff barriers to trade are restrictions to imports but are not in the usual form of a tariff. ...more on Wikipedia about "Non-tariff barriers to trade"
The "Singapore issues" refers to four working groups set up during the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1996 in Singapore, namely investment protection, competition policy, transparency in government procurement and trade facilitation. Disagreements between largely developed and developing economies prevented a resolution in these issues, despite repeated attempts to revisit them, notably during the 2003 Ministerial Conference in Cancún, Mexico, whereby no progress was made. ...more on Wikipedia about "Singapore issues"
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The WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), particularly Article 27, are important elements in the debate on the international legal framework for the patentability of software, and on whether software and computer-implemented inventions should be considered as a field of technology, as TRIPs is binding on all members of the WTO. ...more on Wikipedia about "Software patents under TRIPs Agreement"
The Yes Men are a group of culture jamming activists who practice what they call "identity correction". They pretend to be powerful people and organizations and then use their newfound authority to espouse what they think those groups really believe. Its two leading members are known by a number of aliases, most recently, and in film, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. Their real names are Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos, respectively. Servin is an author of experimental fiction, and was known for being the man who inserted images of men kissing in the computer game SimCopter. Vamos is an assistant professor of media arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. They are assisted by numerous people across the globe, including media artist Patrick Lichty, graphic designer Matt McElligott, costume designer Sal Salmone, and many others. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Yes Men"
* Mode 1 Cross border trade, which is defined as delivery of a service from the territory of one country into the territory of other country; ...more on Wikipedia about "Trade in Services Statistics"
The WTO Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) are rules that apply to the domestic regulations a country applies to foreign investors, often as part of an industrial policy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Trade Related Investment Measures"
The Uruguay Round was a trade negotiation lasting from September 1986 to April 1994 which transformed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade into the World Trade Organization (WTO). It was launched in Punta del Este in Uruguay (hence the name), followed by negotiations in Montreal, Geneva, Brussels, Washington D.C., and Tokyo, with the 20 agreements finally being signed in Marrakesh - the Marrakesh Agreement. ...more on Wikipedia about "Uruguay Round"
(World Trade Organization) :For other uses of the initials WTO, see WTO (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "World Trade Organization"
The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) makes decisions on trade disputes between governments that are adjudicated by the Organization. ...more on Wikipedia about "WTO Dispute Settlement Body"
The World Trade Organisation's Ministerial Conference of 1996 was held in Singapore on December 9 - December 13, 1996. The inaugural meeting for the organisation since its formation a year ago, the event was hosted by the Singapore government at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Suntec City. ...more on Wikipedia about "WTO Ministerial Conference of 1996"
On January 16, 2004, the city settled with 157 individuals arrested outside of the so-called no-protest zone during the WTO events, agreeing to pay them a total of $250,000. ...more on Wikipedia about "WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999"
At the Doha Ministerial Conference in November 2001, Trade Ministers launched the Doha Development Agenda. With this Agenda, WTO Members have placed development issues and the interests of poorer members at the heart of the WTO’s work. The meeting, which took place just two months after the World Trade Center attack, was designed to show the world that economic growth and trade rather than terrorism was the way the world should work together. Held under tight security in the small Gulf state of Qatar, there were few protesters and even fewer lobbyists in attendence. The meeting established four key areas of work: liberalising agricultural markets in rich countries, opening up non-agricultural market access ( NAMA) mainly for industrial goods in developing countries, continuing to press ahead with the services sector liberalisation under the GATS agreements, and working with the so-called "Singapore" issues of investment, competition policy and public procurement (these were removed from the agenda after the Cancun Ministerial Conference in 2003. ...more on Wikipedia about "WTO Ministerial Conference of 2001"
The Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, also known as the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference of the WTO and abbreviated as MC6, was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wan Chai, Hong Kong from 13th to 18th December 2005. Representatives from 148 countries were expected to attend the event, as well as over 10,000 protestors led by the Hong Kong People’s Alliance on WTO and made up of largely South Korean farmers. Wan Chai Sports Ground and Wan Chai Cargo Handling Basin in Wan Chai North have been designated as protest zones. Victoria Park served as the starting point for the rallies. ...more on Wikipedia about "WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005"
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