Full Description
This publication contains the text of the WTO's founding agreement, the 1994 Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, and its Annexes, including all amendments and additions since its entry into force up to and including September 2025. These include an amendment to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) aimed at improving developing economies' access to medicines, which entered into force in January 2017. Other amendments or additions include the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), which entered into force in February 2017, an amendment to the Trade Policy Review Mechanism in July 2017 to extend the frequency of peer review periods as of 2019, and the amended Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), which entered into force in April 2014. The amended GPA replaced the 1994 GPA for all of the parties to the latter Agreement as of January 2021. This publication also includes the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, which entered into force in September 2025. The publication updates and replaces The Legal Texts: The Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, which was first printed in 1994.
Contents
Preface; Marrakesh agreement establishing the World Trade Organization; Annex 1; Annex 1A. Multilateral agreements on trade in goods; Annex 1B. General agreement on trade in services; Annex 1C. Agreement on trade-related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights as amended by the 2005 protocol amending the TRIPS agreement; Annex 2. Understanding on rules and procedures governing the settlement of disputes; Annex 3. Trade policy review mechanism as amended by the general trade decision of 26 July 2017; Annex 4. Plurilateral trade agreements.
