{"id":684,"date":"2023-06-13T07:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T07:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infotechdemos.co.in\/esf\/?page_id=684"},"modified":"2023-06-19T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T10:29:15","slug":"uruguay-round-wto-accession","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/multi-plurilateral-negotiations\/wto\/wto-negotiations-2\/uruguay-round-wto-accession\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay Round &amp; WTO Accession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The conclusion of the Uruguay Round, in 1994,&nbsp;significantly reformed the World Trading system.&nbsp;Besides strengthening the&nbsp;system of the GATT, it&nbsp;established the WTO as a framework for regulating the&nbsp;liberalisation of international trade, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and the trade related aspects on intellectual property rights&nbsp;(TRIPS)&nbsp;agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This section is to provide&nbsp;European service companies that export&nbsp;their services to a WTO member country with information on the legally binding situation of their trading partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"heading-title\">In case you are facing any uncertainties or problems regarding the access to a certain country\u2019s market<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"cstm-list wp-block-list\">\n<li>consult the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/?page_id=658\">Uruguay Round&nbsp;Schedules of Committments<\/a>&nbsp;to recieve a comprehensive overview&nbsp;of your trading partner\u2019s WTO obligations in the respective services sectors. We have downloaded these schedules from the&nbsp;WTO website.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can also&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wto.org\/english\/tratop_e\/serv_e\/serv_commitments_e.htm\">download the schedules directly from the WTO website<\/a>. Choose the country for which you require all the commitments and&nbsp;exemptions in the middle of the WTO page.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ESF also drafted a specific document on the WTO member states\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/multi-plurilateral-negotiations\/wto\/uruguay-round-mode-4-gats\/\">Uruguay Round Mode 4 GATS<\/a>\u00a0committments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>consult the EC \u2018s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/madb.europa.eu\/mkaccdb2\/indexPubli.htm\">Market Access Database<\/a>&nbsp;for further assistance. This database&nbsp;allows you finding&nbsp;information on trade barriers in services.&nbsp;Please consider that the information provided is very limited.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conclusion of the Uruguay Round, in 1994,&nbsp;significantly reformed the World Trading system.&nbsp;Besides strengthening the&nbsp;system of the GATT, it&nbsp;established the WTO as a framework for regulating the&nbsp;liberalisation of international trade, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and the trade related aspects on intellectual property rights&nbsp;(TRIPS)&nbsp;agreement. This section is to provide&nbsp;European service companies that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":392,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-684","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684\/revisions\/883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esf.be\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}