World Trade Organisation
The WTO was established on January 1, 1995. The WTO is the embodiment of
the Uruguay Round results and the successor to GATT. 76 Governments became
members of the WTO on its first day. As of December 2000, there are 142
members of the WTO and 34 countries have an observer status. There is a
waiting list of 28 members. They account for more than 90 per cent of the world
trade. The WTO is based in Geneva, Switzerland. Its essential functions are:
Administering and implementing the multilateral and plurilateral trade
agreements which together make up the WTO;
1. Acting as a forum for multilateral trade negotiations;
2. Seeking to resolve trade disputes;
3. Overseeing national trade policies; and
4.
Cooperating with other international institutions
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