PO232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Preferential Trading Area, Donald Trump, Bali Package
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Wto: what it is and what it does. It"s the most signi cant international economic organization in terms of its effectiveness and scope in governing economic relations between countries. It covers trade in goods and services, and also ipr intellectual property rights. When created, it absorbed of the all already existing agreements under gatt. The wto is a formally contracted body of rules backed up by a judicial system and a minimum of political structure gilbert winham. New issues, new agreements: agriculture aoa; and intellectual property, investment, and services . They also felt that northern states had more work to do to implement promises they made. Their other complaint was about process they felt that they were being excluded from the most important negotiations; that the powerful states would get together on their own in the green room . Doha round starts in 2001 things change that allows a new round:
