The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business. Where countries have faced trade barriers and wanted them lowered, the negotiations have helped to open markets for trade. But the WTO is not just about opening markets, and in some circumstances its rules support maintaining trade barriers for example, to protect consumers or prevent the spread of disease.…
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Some, especially multinational corporations, believe that the WTO is great for business. Rich and poor countries alike are said to have an equal right to challenge each other in the WTO’s dispute settlement procedures. a lot of international trade tension is reduced because countries can turn to the WTO to settle their trade disputes. When they bring disputes to the WTO, the WTO’s procedure focuses their attention on the single set of rules that all members of the WTO must adhere to. Those rules include an obligation for members to bring their disputes to the WTO and not to act unilaterally. Around 300 disputes have been brought to the WTO since it was set up in 1995. Without the uniform rules some could have led to more serious political conflict. The rules also allow smaller countries to enjoy some increased bargaining power due to the level trading ground. The fact that there is a single set of rules applying to all members standardizes the entire trade operation, making the WTO fair for all members. Protectionism is the shielding of a country’s’ domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports. The WTO promotes free trade by removing tariffs, reducing tax on imports and generally lowering trading barriers. The result is reduced costs of production (because imports used in…
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The global economic integration is the main trend of the development of current world economy. Some international organizations, such as WTO, are always applied themselves to promoting the trade liberalization and reducing the tariff wall among the countries.…
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This essay will provide an in-depth analysis of the existence of the WTO; how it came into existence, its objectives and what it fundamentally stands for. Criticisms of the organisation will be debated against the benefits and a conclusion will be reached explaining why the WTO is an effective promoter of free trade among its member states irrespective of the existing criticisms.…
The World Trade Organization was created with a goal and ultimate objective set in mind. Its ultimate goal is to improve the welfare of peoples in the member countries. The objective is to help trade flow smoothly, fairly and predictably. In this paper you will learn what the WTO does, how it does this, how it is set up, criticisms against the WTO and arguments for the WTO.…
The World Trade Organization, (WTO), is the primary international body to help promote free trade, by drawing up the rules of international trade. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible. However, it has been mired in controversy and seen to be hijacked by rich country interests, thus worsening the lot of the poor and inviting protest and intense criticism. Where countries have faced trade barriers and wanted them lowered, the negotiations have helped to open markets for trade. But the WTO is not just about opening markets, and in some circumstances its rules support maintaining trade barriers — for example, to protect consumers or prevent the spread of disease. (Subramanian & Wei, 2007).…
Membership of the World Trade Organisation has often been a key tool for governments seeking to enhance the credibility of trade reform and to provide firms with a more predictable external trading environment. At the same time, successive rounds of multilateral trade liberalisations have highlighted the difficulties that many low-income countries are facing in capturing the benefits of more open markets. In these countries, governments, institutions and enterprises often lack capacities, e.g. information, policies, procedures and/or infrastructure, to compete effectively in global markets and take full advantage of the opportunities that are offered through international trade (OECD Journal on Development, 2007).…
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The spree of economic integration process has inflated the trade volumes dramatically during the last few decades. And here international trade consequently demonstrates the extent of globalization with increased spatial interdependencies amongst the participants of the global economy and their level of integration. The volume of exchanged goods and services between the nations is taking a growing share in generating wealth, mainly by offering economic growth opportunities in new regions and by reducing the costs of procurement for a wide array of trade bales. The initiatives under the rubric of multilateralism by the WTO, the bilateral as well the regional agreements popularly known as the PTAs, gargantuan efforts undertaken by the ICC to simplify the trade procedures and practices, tremendous emphasis on external sector liberalization proposed by the think tanks and business community compelling the policy makers across the globe to go for opening up-all these worked as the pertinent catalysts for huge surge in trade volumes. Now, the international trade continues to grow every year as nations expand their global trade and new nations are joining.…