World Trade Organization
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"What capitalists failed to accomplish by a century of repressive measures against trade union leaders, the World Trade Organization, enthusiastically endorsed by social democrat governments around the world, is doing for them. When barriers to imports are removed, nationally based trade unions are undermined. Now when workers in high-wage countries demand better conditions, the bosses can threaten to close the factory and import the goods from China, or some other country where wages are low and trade unionists will not cause trouble." --A Darwinian Left (1999) by Peter Singer, p. 5 |
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates international trade. The WTO officially commenced on 1 January 1995 under the Marrakesh Agreement, signed by 123 nations on 15 April 1994, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which commenced in 1948.
See also
- Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures (TRIMS)
- Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
- Aide-mémoire non-paper
- Anti-globalization movement
- Foreign Affiliate Trade Statistics
- Global administrative law
- Globality
- Information Technology Agreement
- International Trade Centre
- Labour Standards in the World Trade Organisation
- List of member states of the World Trade Organization
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Subsidy
- Swiss Formula
- Trade bloc
- Washington Consensus
- World Trade Report
- World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity
- China and the World Trade Organization
- Geographical indication
- Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
- List of Geographical Indications in India
