The World Trade Organisation was officially started on the 1st of January‚ 1995. It replaced the General Agreement for Tariffs and Trade (GATT) as the world’s principal authority overseeing international trade. The WTO currently consists of 153 member nations‚ which represent over 97% of the world’s population‚ and is based in Geneva‚ Switzerland. The process of becoming a WTO member is different for every nation applying. The terms of accession are dependent upon the country’s phase of economic
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CHAPTER-16 - WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION Q.1 : Discuss the objectives and functions of WTO. (M.2011) Ans. A) EMERGENCE OF WTO :- After the Second World War‚ many countries got down together to work on ways and means to promote international trade. The result was signing of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) by 23 countries in 1947. India was one of the founder members of GATT. GATT was created to reduce global depression and to liberalise and regulate the world trade by reducing tariff
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1‚ 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement‚ replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)‚ which commenced in 1948.[5]The organization deals with regulation of trade between participating countries; it provides a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements‚ and a dispute resolution process aimed at enforcing participants’
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Ethan Illingworth 10-12-12 Class Mrs. Amend Women Rights: Change and Continuity In the 1600’s‚ when the women’s holocaust was in full effect‚ women were stripped of their basic rights. Their decisions were made by their husbands. Legally woman were men’s property‚ could not vote‚ hold office‚ enter a professional occupation‚ attend college or gain custody of their children after a divorce (The Women are Angry). Skip forward about 400 years later and now women have gained many more rights and
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Administering WTO trade agreements‚ (ii) Forum for trade negotiations‚ (iii) Handling trade disputes‚ (iv) Monitoring national trade policies (v) Technical assistance and training for developing countries ‚ (vi)Cooperation with other international organizations. The World Trade Organization (WTO) deals with the rules of trade between nations at a global or near-global level. But there is more to it than that. It’s an organization for liberalizing trade. It’s a forum where governments negotiate trade agreements
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the World Economy When the Portuguese reached India by sea in the 1490s they set up the foundation of trade around the Indian Ocean. Islamic rule of the Byzantine world and the Sassanid lands made it safe for all traders to travels between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. As their rule expanded further to parts of Europe‚ Africa‚ and Indonesia the trading business between countries prospered. Once fees were paid almost all traders of any religion were allowed to move and trade from place
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World Trade Organization (WTO) The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. The goal is to help producers of goods and services‚ exporters‚ and importers conduct their business. The World Trade Organization came into being in 1995. One of the youngest of the international organizations‚ the WTO is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) established in the wake of the Second World War
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The Silk Road was an important trade network that established cross-cultural trade; people from Han China all the way to the Roman Empire were involved. The Roads came around at about 200 B.C.E‚ and persisted for another 1‚700 years. Luxury goods‚ religions‚ diseases‚ food‚ and ideas have emerged within that time. The Silk Road and its trade remain constant even though its patterns of interaction have been altered through the plague and Islam‚ Christianity‚ and Buddhism. Over time‚ the Silk Roads’
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Britain asserted its authority in India from 1750 to 1870 with nonmilitary methods. Britain used political‚ social‚ and intellectual ways to get India. Britain influenced India politically. They expanded their territories and tried to get as much land under the British East India company’s rule. The more they expanded the more company men would come to Africa and to the land of British India. They also had Indians that join the military wear the uniforms of the British military. They influenced
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