Pressebüro Savanne, World Trade Organization WTO

This page is still under construction. 

This is a selection of WWW pages on the World Trade Organization WTO and its predecessor GATT. 

Contents of This Page

• Introduction and Motivation
• The Campaign
• GATT
• WTO World Trade Organization (Critical Views)
• WTO World Trade Organization (Official and Corporate)
• WTO World Trade Organization (Various Resources)
• Unsorted Links

Introduction and Motivation

The Campaign

• PGA home page in Geneva, with information about the first world-wide conference of PGA, which took place from 23 to 25 February, 1998 in Geneva.
• Older page of the Play Fair Europe Project, at the University of Aachen, Germany.
• More recent page of the Referat für Internationales & Ökologie, hosting a page of Play Fair Europe! that seems to be missing as yet, though there is a description of the Second International Autumn University on North-South Issues and the Environment - ``Surviving in a Globalised World'', held in Aachen, Germany, from 27 September to 11 October 1997. This page contains a description of the planned WTO campaign.

GATT

• Focus on: GATT, by DESIP (Demographic, Environmental, and Security Issues Project).

World Trade Organization WTO (Critical Views)

• World Trade Organisation - Oxfam Policy Briefing for the WTO Ministerial Conference, Singapore, 1996.
• Ed Brown's page on IMF, WTO, GATT
• Third World Network (TWN)
• Paper on the IMF in Africa, by Charles Abugre, Third World Network.
• Why the WTO should not deal with labor standards, by Martin Khor, Third World Network.
• Prying Open the South's Government Business (First article in a series of two), by Martin Khor, Third World Network.
• Government Spending under W.T.O. Scrutiny? (Second article in a series of two), by Martin Khor, Third World Network.
• Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)
• MAI text

World Trade Organization WTO (Official and Corporate)

• World Trade Organization Home Page; this is the official site.
• WTO FAQs (Frequently-asked questions) ``What is it, and what use it it ... ?'' by the WTO itself.
• The WTO Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization, signed in Marrakesh, 15 April 1994, and related documents.
• Regions as defined by the World Trade Organization (WTO), provided by the International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC).
• OAS (Organization of American States) Summary Description of the Uruguay Round.
• WTO - Welthandelsorganisation (in German), by the "Sektion für Wirtschafts- und Integrationspolitik of the Austrian Government.
• Trade and Sustainable Development - GATT and WTO.
• Report on WTO Implementation from The President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations: Cementing and Improving Existing Agreements, March 11, 1996. Also look at other reports by the Office of the United States Trade Representative and Related Entities.
• Major Points in the 1995 Report on the WTO Consistency of Trade Policies by Major Trading Partners, by MITI, Japanese Government's Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
• Major Points in the 1996 Report on the WTO Consistency of Trade Policies by Major Trading Partners, by MITI, Japanese Government's Ministry of International Trade and Industry.

WTO World Trade Organization (Various Resources)

• W.T.O. ? Pages, and especially their collection of articles on WTO, but also their guestbook (or forum), which shows that most people interested in the WTO have more questions than answers.

Unsorted links (meaning: sorted only alphabetically)

• none at the moment