strategy
Promoting positive action clauses in world trade agreements
Implementation:
The [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] (GATT) system of special and differential treatment (SDT) has survived into the WTO, but in a diluted form with the greatest 'concessions' reserved for the least developed states, while other developing countries are expected to move broadly in the same direction as industrial countries, albeit at a slower pace. Under the [Agreement on Agriculture], for example, the least developed countries were exempted from most of the tariff and subsidy cuts, and for other developing countries the agreed reductions were smaller than for developed countries and are being implemented over a longer period. The [General Agreement on Trade in Services] (GATS) also accepts that developing countries should be allowed to make fewer and less liberal commitments. Narrower:
Promoting food security provisions in world trade agreementsPromoting labour protection clauses in world trade agreementsPromoting environmental protection clauses in world trade agreementsPromoting interests of developing countries in world trade agreements Organizations:
World Trade Organization General agreement on tariffs and trade, 1947 Protocol relating to trade negotiations among developing countries General agreement on trade in services General agreement on tariffs and trade, 1994 Subjects:
Action → Action Communication → Promotion
Commerce → Trade
Law → Agreements
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
