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This publication contains the text of the WTO's founding agreement, the 1994 Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, and its Annexes, including all amendments and additions since its entry into force until September 2017. These include an amendment to the WTO's intellectual property agreement (TRIPS Agreement) aimed at improving developing countries' access to medicines, the WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement, which entered into force in February 2017, an amendment adopted in July 2017 to extend the frequency of peer review periods under the Trade Policy Review Mechanism as of 2019, and the amended Government Procurement Agreement. This publication updates and replaces The Legal Texts: The Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, which was first printed in 1994.

• Includes the complete and official texts of the WTO agreements in one collection
• Provides an indispensable guide to all WTO trade-related negotiations
• Updates and replaces The Legal Texts: The Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations (1994)

Published December 2017 | 550 pages | 228 x 152 mm | Weight: 0.900 kg

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface....................................................................................................................... vii
MARRAKESH AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING THE WORLD
TRADE ORGANIZATION................................................................................ 1
List of Annexes.................................................................................................. 13
Annex 1 ............................................................................................................ 15
Annex 1A Multilateral Agreements on Trade in Goods......................... 15
General interpretative note to Annex 1A................................................. 15
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994....................................... 16
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT 1947) ........................ 19
Differential and More Favourable Treatment Reciprocity
and Fuller Participation of Developing Countries
("Enabling Clause") .......................................................................88
Understanding on the Interpretation of Article II:1(b) of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994............................91
Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XVII of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994............................92
Understanding on the Balance-of-Payments Provisions of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994............................94
Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XXIV of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994............................98
Understanding in Respect of Waivers of Obligations under the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994..........................101
Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XXVIII of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994..........................102
Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade 1994 ..................................................................................104
Agreement on Agriculture ..................................................................... 106
Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures.................................................................... 135
Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade ........................................... 150
Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures.............................. 172
Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994............................................. 176
Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994............................................. 202
Agreement on Preshipment Inspection .................................................. 232
Agreement on Rules of Origin .............................................................. 242
Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures ......................................... 255
Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures ........................ 263
Agreement on Safeguards...................................................................... 311
Agreement on Trade Facilitation ........................................................... 321
Annex 1B General Agreement on Trade in Services.............................357
Annex 1C Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights as amended by the 2005 Protocol
Amending the TRIPS Agreement.......................................................396
Annex 2 Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing
the Settlement of Disputes ..........................................................................434
Annex 3 Trade Policy Review Mechanism as amended by the
General Council Decision of 26 July 2017 ................................................461
Annex 4 Plurilateral Trade Agreements........................................................464
Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft ................................................... 465
Agreement on Government Procurement as amended by
the 2012 Protocol Amending the Agreement on
Government Procurement................................................................. 472
Index ....................................................................................................................... 502
Acronyms used in the Index................................................................................... 533

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