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World Trade Organization
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) deals with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.
A multilateral environmental agreement dealing with hazardous waste.
Industry:Economy
A treaty, administered by WIPO, for the protection of the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works.
Industry:Economy
Amber Box types of support, but with constraints on production or other conditions designed to reduce the distortion. Currently not limited.
Industry:Economy
Trade data conforming with national income accounting methods (the value of trade in goods and services changing hands between residents and non-residents sometimes without crossing borders); the figures for goods trade are derived and adjusted from customs data (the value of goods trade crossing borders).
Industry:Economy
Any measure which acts to restrain imports at point of entry.
Industry:Economy
drawing on members' positions
Industry:Economy
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In agriculture, a category of domestic support. * Green box: supports considered not to distort trade and therefore permitted with no limits. * Blue box: permitted supports linked to production, but subject to production limits, and therefore minimally trade-distorting. * Amber box: supports considered to distort trade and therefore subject to reduction commitments.
Industry:Economy
In official drafts, square brackets indicate text that has not been agreed and is still under discussion.
Industry:Economy
In maritime transport, sea shipping between ports of the same country, usually along coasts.
Industry:Economy
Group of agricultural exporting nations lobbying for agricultural trade liberalization. It was formed in 1986 in Cairns, Australia just before the beginning of the Uruguay Round.
Industry:Economy