[The WTO as an international organization]

From: International Journal | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The WTO as an International Organization, edited by Anne O. Krueger (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 426pp, US$50.00).

The global trading system was fifty years old in 1998, a baby boomer birthday that like many others occasioned mixed emotions. The World Trade Organization (WTO) celebrated the anniversary of the coming into force of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) with a ministerial meeting in Geneva. In his speech to the celebrants, the president of the United States, Bill Clinton, called both for the continued absence of restrictions on the burgeoning domain ...

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