Business guide to the Uruguay round.

Contents;

Overview

Part one: World trade organization: Its role and functions
Chapter 1: World trade organization: Forum for negotiations, dispute settlement and trade policy reviews

Part two: International rules governing trade in goods (Gatt 1994 and its associate agreements)
Section 1: Objectives and basic rules of Gatt
Chapter 2: Four main rules of Gatt

Section 2: Rules of general application
Chapter 3: Valuation of goods for customs purposes
Chapter 4: Preshipment inspection
Chapter 5: Mandatory and voluntary product standards and phytosanitary regulations
Chapter 6: Import licensing procedures
Chapter 7: Rules applicable to exports

Section 3: Subsides
Chapter 8: Rules governing subsides on industrial products

Section 4: Safeguard actions, countervailing and anti-dumping duties ( measures governments are ordinarily authorized to take if requested by an affected industry)
Chapter 9: Safeguard measures to restrict imports in emergency situations
Chapter 10: Safeguard actions for economic development purposes: Special flexibility available to developing countries.
Chapter 11: Response to unfair trade practices: Rules on the use of countervailing and anti-dumping duties

Section 5: Trade-related investment measures
Chapter 12: Trade-related investment measures

Section 6: Improvements in market access and new rules applicable to the trade in the textiles and in agricultural
Chapter 13: Market access negotiations in the industrial and agricultural sectors ( Agreements on textiles and clothing and on agriculture)


Part three: International rules governing trade in services
Chapter 14: General agreement on trade in services

Part four: Government procurement and state trading
Chapter 15: Government procurement
Chapter 16: State trading

Part five: Trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights
Chapter 17: Agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights

Index : p. 387-392.