Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Volume 1
- Introduction
- Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO Agreement)
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
- Agreement on Agriculture
- Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement)
- Agreement on Textiles and Clothing
- Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
- Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures
- Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (Anti-Dumping Agreement)
- Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Customs Valuation Agreement)
- Agreement on Preshipment Inspection
- Agreement on Rules of Origin
- Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures
- Volume 2
- Index by Subject
- Index by Case
Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO Agreement)
from Volume 1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Volume 1
- Introduction
- Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO Agreement)
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
- Agreement on Agriculture
- Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement)
- Agreement on Textiles and Clothing
- Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
- Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures
- Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (Anti-Dumping Agreement)
- Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Customs Valuation Agreement)
- Agreement on Preshipment Inspection
- Agreement on Rules of Origin
- Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures
- Volume 2
- Index by Subject
- Index by Case
Summary
PREAMBLE
TEXT OF THE PREAMBLE
The Parties to this Agreement,
Recognizing that their relations in the field of trade and economic endeavour should be conducted with a view to raising standards of living, ensuring full employment and a large and steadily growing volume of real income and effective demand, and expanding the production of and trade in goods and services, while allowing for the optimal use of the world’s resources in accordance with the objective of sustainable development, seeking both to protect and preserve the environment and to enhance the means for doing so in a manner consistent with their respective needs and concerns at different levels of economic development.
Recognizing further that there is a need for positive efforts designed to ensure that developing countries, and especially the least developed among them, secure a share in the growth of internaitonal trade commensurate with the needs of tehir economic development,
Being desirous of contributing to these objectives by entering into reciprocal and mutually advantageous arrangements directed to the substantial reduction of tariffs and other barriers to trade and to the elimination of discriminatory treatment in international trade relations,
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- WTO Analytical IndexGuide to WTO Law and Practice, pp. 6 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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