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The History And Analysis Of The World Trade Organization Disputes Settlement System

Posted on:2001-05-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2156360062980094Subject:International Law
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After the Second World War, on condition of the foundation of national economic multi-lateral organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Organization, in order to enhance the process of world trade liberalization and to begin rectifying a great number of trade protection left over since the early 1930s,GATT came into being as a provisional trade organization intended for ITO. Shouldering the main duty of ITO, it provisionally lasted for 40 years .Not until 1944,did the member stares sign the agreement and set up WTO, for they thought that it was time to built up a unified and official international trade organization.In the period of both GATT and WTO, to settle the trade dispute between members ,it is one of the main duties and also the key to maintain their own normal work and truly realize the essential principles and aims. Therefore, the Dispute-settling System is called safety valve of GATT as well as of WTO.AT present , WTO has got more than 100 members states ,and its regulating scope involves commodity trade ,service trade intellectual properties protection and investment. Due to its large numbers of member states, widely-embodied fields, immense influence, it can be best called" the United Nation of economy and trade". Since 1980s,China has been making persistent effort to resume the status of the signing state and to join WTO. Especially, the WTO Deal signed by USA and China paved the way for China to enter WTO. Such being the case, it is of theoretical and practical significance to study WTO ^specially its dispute-settling system.On the basis of the elder generation's research fruits , this article analyzes the emergence, development and evolution taking time as threads and historic evolution of the system GATT to WTO as angle. Basically .the article can be divided into the following three parts :the first part is the emergence background of GATT's dispute-settling system ,the main process of its evolution and its main content and the analysis to its characteristics and disadvantages. The second is emergence, authorities and process of WTO's disputing-settling system and the detailed analysis of its main features and process. The third one is WTO's other regulations related to dispute-settling. In this part, the author also analyzes how China should think of as well as take advantage of the system.Through the evolution of the dispute-settling system from GATT to WTO, we can see that the system has developed more judicially, more regularly, more mandatory and more efficiently, by mean of a few important amendments and complements. This is the objective demands of the existence and development of the system itself, as well as the necessity of world economy globalization and unification.
Keywords/Search Tags:GATT, WTO, Dispute-settling system, development, analysis
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