Study On Decision-Making Mechanism Of WTO

The WTO decision-making mechanism has aroused people's enormous interests after failure of the Seattle ministerial conference of The World Trade Organization (World Trade Organization, hereafter refers to as WTO). The criticism opinions are streamed in and reforms are requested continuously. This article mainly carries on the introduction and the analysis of the WTO decision-making mechanism, pointes out the problems of the WTO decision-making mechanism in existence, discusses approaches of reform, studies the countermeasures of the developing countries in the view of developing country.Besides the introduction and the conclusion, this article altogether is divided into four chapters.At first, chapter one has outlined the WTO decision-making mechanism, has analyzed the contents which the common international organization decision-making mechanism contains, and has made generally introduction of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, hereafter referred to as GATT) and the WTO decision-making mechanism .Chapter two has made an clarification of the system of WTO decision-making mechanism. In the view of theory this chapter has mainly carried on an elaboration on four system factors of one member one vote, consensus, member- driven and the informal decision-making process and so on, has inquired into their origin, has analyzed the connotation, and performed the objective appraisal.Chapter three mainly has pointed out the problems of the WTO decision-making mechanism in existence in the view of the developing country. All the countries share the equal opportunity of decision-making participation from the system stratification level, but this is only equality in form, the developing countries cannot grasp these opportunities because their participation abilities are limited. Moreover, because the informal decision-making process lacks transparency, the appointment the Chairs of WTO Bodies is unfair and so on, the majority of developing countries are removed out of the decision-making procedure.Chapter four mainly discusses on how to enhance the participation abilities of the developing countries in the WTO decision-making mechanism, puts forward some proposals and the tentative plans to reform the WTO decision-making mechanism. It also has studied countermeasure of the developing country, the key point is to increase their own participation abilities, and to strengthen the cooperation among the developing countries.