Joint Action
WTO Provisions and Agreements
| General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 is a 2-page, 3-part document which lists other binding documents as of the outset of the WTO. Original trade provisions are embodied in General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1947, a 65-page document, summarized below. WTO members become "contracting parties" to GATT 1947. | |
| Preamble: | Contracting parties (CPs) recognize 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, developing the full use of the resources of the world and expanding the production and exchange of goods." |
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| PART I | |
| I | General Most-Favored-Nation Treatment |
| II | Schedules of Concessions |
| PART II | |
| III | National Treatment on Internal Taxation and Regulation |
| IV | Special Provisions Relating to Cinematograph Films |
| V | Freedom of Transit |
| VI | Anti-dumping and Countervailing Duties |
| VII | Valuation for Customs Purposes |
| VIII | Fees and Formatlities Connected with Importation and Exportation |
| IX | Marks of Origin |
| X | Publication and Administration of Trade Regulations |
| XI | General Elimination of Quantitative Restrictions |
| XII | Restrictions to Safeguard the Balance of Payments |
| XIII | Non-discriminatory Administration of Quantitative Restrictions |
| XIV | Exceptions to the Rule of Non-discrimination |
| XV | Exchange arrangements |
| XVI | Subsidies |
| XVII | State Trading Enterprises |
| XVIII | Governmental Assistance to Economic Development (Section A; Section B; Section C; Section D |
| XIX | Emergency Action on Imports of Particular Products |
| XX | General Exceptions |
| XXI | Security Exceptions |
| XXII | Consultation |
| XXIII | Nullification or Impairment |
| PART III | |
| XXIV | Territorial Application - Frontier Traffic - Customs Unions and Free-trade Areas |
| XXV | Joint Action by the Contracting Parties |
| XXVI | Acceptance, Entry into Force and Registration |
| XXVII | Withholding or Withdrawal of Concessions |
| XXVIII | Modification of Schedules |
| XXVIIIbis | Tariff Negotiations |
| XXIX | The Relation of this Agreement to the Havana Charter |
| XXX | Amendments |
| XXXI | Withdrawal |
| XXXII | Contracting Parties |
| XXXIII | Accession |
| XXXIV | Annexes |
| XXXV | Non-application of the Agreement between Particular Contracting Parties |
| PART IV: TRADE AND DEVEL0PMENT | |
| XXXVI | Principles and Objectives |
| XXXVII | Commitments |
| XXXVIII | Joint Action |
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