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  2. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - Wikipedia

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    The 76 existing GATT members and the European Communities became the founding members of the WTO on 1 January 1995. The other 51 GATT members rejoined the WTO in the following two years (the last being Congo in 1997). Since the founding of the WTO, 33 new non-GATT members have joined and 22 are currently negotiating membership. There are a ...

  3. World Trade Organization - Wikipedia

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    The economists Harry Dexter White (left) and John Maynard Keynes (right) at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire [27]. The WTO precursor, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), was established by a multilateral treaty of 23 countries in 1947 after the end of World War II, in the wake of other new multilateral institutions dedicated to international economic cooperation—such ...

  4. History of the World Trade Organization - Wikipedia

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    The GATT was the only multilateral instrument governing international trade from 1946 until the WTO was established on 1 January 1995. [9] Despite attempts in the mid-1950s and 1960s to create some form of institutional mechanism for international trade, the GATT continued to operate for almost half a century as a semi-institutionalized multilateral treaty regime on a provisional basis. [10]

  5. Trade agreement - Wikipedia

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    There are currently 205 agreements in force as of July 2007. Over 300 have been reported to the WTO. [13] The number of FTA has increased significantly over the last decade. Between 1948 and 1994, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor to the WTO, received 124 notifications. Since 1995 over 300 trade agreements have ...

  6. National treatment - Wikipedia

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    It is found in all 3 of the main WTO agreements (GATT, GATS and TRIPS). [2] National treatment is a basic principle of GATT/WTO that prohibits discrimination between imported and domestically produced goods with respect to internal taxation or other government regulation.

  7. Trade and Investment Framework Agreement - Wikipedia

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    The WTO is a successor to the GATT, and the original GATT text (GATT 1947) is still in effect under the WTO framework, subject to the modifications of GATT 1994. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Nations that were not party in 1995 to the GATT need to meet the minimum conditions spelled out in specific documents before they can accede; in September 2019, the list ...

  8. Member states of the World Trade Organization - Wikipedia

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    The remaining WTO members acceded after first becoming WTO observers and negotiating membership. The 27 states of the European Union are dually represented, as the EU is a full member of the organization. Other autonomous entities are eligible for full membership in the WTO provided that they have a separate customs territory with full autonomy ...

  9. International trade law - Wikipedia

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    Many things impacted GATT like the Uruguay Round and the North American Free Trade Agreement. [13] In 1994 the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established to take the place of the GATT. This is because the GATT was meant to be a temporary fix to trade issues, and the founders hoped for something more concrete.