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 ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible. Taken from https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/thewto_e.htm
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Explained in One Minute
A Closer Look
An informal press guide to “WTO Speak”
The WTO & GATT: A Principled History – The Brookings Institution
Literature, websites, and databases concerning the WTO – NYU Law Library
WTO/GATT Resources – GWU Law Library
An Interview with Keith Rockwell of the World Trade Organisation
Trade changes: WTO Public Forum
Trade and tariff data
Quantitative information on tariff and trade:
https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm
How to measure trade?
Dispute settlement
Resolving trade disputes is one of the WTO’s core activity. A dispute arises when a member government believes another member government is violating an agreement or a commitment that it has made in the WTO.
The panel process of WTO dispute settlement
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/disp2_e.htm
A Force for Good?
Noam Chomsky on the WTO
Has the WTO failed poor countries?
How China, India and Brazil broke America’s grip on the WTO
The Way Forward
What’s Next for the WTO – Council on Foreign Relations
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/whats-next-wto
Trade backlash and the World Trade Organization – The Brookings Institution
Further Reading on E-International Relations
- Online Resources – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Online Resources – Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
- Online Resources – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Online Resources – The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Online Resources – The Organization of American States
- Online Resources – Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
