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While gatt was a set of rules agreed upon by nations, the WTO is an intergovernmental organization with its own headquarters and staff, and its scope encompasses trade in goods, trade in services and intellectual property rights. Although intended to serve as multilateral agreements, plurilateral agreements have resulted in selective trade and fragmentation of members in several rounds of GATT negotiations (notably Tokyo). WTO agreements are generally a multilateral GATT resolution mechanism. [24] The GATT entered into force in January. 1, 1948. Since that beginning, it has been refined, which eventually led to the creation, on 1 January 1995, of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which registered and expanded it. At that time, 125 nations were signatories to their agreements, which covered about 90% of world trade. While the Dillon Round took place in the laborious process of individual customs negotiations, well before the end of the Round, it became clear that a more comprehensive approach was needed to address the challenges arising from the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC) and EFTA, as well as from europe`s rebirth as an important international trader in general. For the most part, agriculture has been excluded from previous agreements, as it has been granted special status in the areas of import quotas and export subsidies, with slight reservations. However, at the time of the Uruguay Round, many countries felt that the exception for agriculture was so blatant that they refused to sign a new agreement without agricultural products without movement. These fourteen countries were known as the “Cairns Group” and consisted mainly of small and medium-medium-largest agricultural exporters such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia and New Zealand. In addition to facilitating applied tariff reductions, the contribution of the FIRST GATT to trade liberalization includes “the commitment of negotiated tariff reductions for an extended period (more durable in 1955), the determination of the general benefit of non-discrimination through most-favoured (MFN) treatment and the status of domestic treatment, the guarantee of greater transparency of trade policies and the provision of a forum for the future.

Negotiations and peaceful settlement of bilateral disputes. . . .