Uruguay Round
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The Uruguay Round was the 8th round of multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) conducted within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), spanning from 1986 to 1993 and embracing 123 countries as "contracting parties". The Round led to the creation of the World Trade Organization, with GATT remaining as an integral part of the WTO agreements. The broad mandate of the Round had been to extend GATT trade rules to areas previously exempted as too difficult to liberalize (agriculture, textiles) and increasingly important new areas previously not included (trade in services, intellectual property, investment policy trade distortions).[2] The Round came into effect in 1995 with deadlines ending in 2000 (2004 in the case of developing country contracting parties) under the administrative direction of the newly created World Trade Organization (WTO).[3]
Uruguay Round | |
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Status | Complete |
Genre | Trade Round |
Begins | September, 1986 |
Ends | April 15, 1994 |
Location(s) | Punta del Este, Montreal, Geneva, Brussels, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Marrakesh |
Country | Uruguay, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, United States, Japan, Morocco |
Previous event | Tokyo Round |
Next event | Doha Development Round |
Participants | 105 [1] |
The Doha Development Round was the next trade round, beginning in 2001 and still unresolved after missing its official deadline of 2005.[4]