world trade organization
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What Is International Trade?
Exchange of capital goods and services across international boundaries or territories
In most countries it represents a significant share of GDP
Why International Trade?
Diverse Economic Resources
Differences In Productive Resources
Difference in cost: Absolute and comparative
Important for Countries’ well being
Importance for citizen
What do you know?
• WTO Formation?• No. of Members• Latest member• General Secretary• Head Quarters• Indian Head Quarters• Last Summit• India’s representative to
WTO
WTO
• Why WTO was formed? – The History• Problems with GATT• Principles of WTO• Functions of WTO• Organizational Structure of WTO• WTO and India
History
GATT formed in 1947 Focus on multilateralism Uruguay Round Final Act of 1994 WTO incepted on 1st Jan,
1995
Problems with GATT
• Failed to liberalize trade in agricultural products.• Experienced partial success in regulating trade
practices • Steady erosion of MFN principle by the EC. • Only a gentlemen's agreement with no teeth, no
enforcement power.
What is WTO
“WTO is an International body designed to play the role of a watchdog in spheres of trade in Goods, services foreign investments, IPR etc.”
Principles
To help trade flow as freely as possible
To achieve further liberalization gradually through negotiation
To set up an impartial means of settling disputes
Functions
Administering the WTO trade agreements Forum for trade negotiations Administering the mechanism for settling trade
disputes among members Monitoring national trade policies Assisting developing countries with training and
technical assistance Cooperation with other Internationals
organizations.
Organizational Structure
Level 1: Ministerial Conference
Level 2: General Council
Level 3: Goods, Service and intellectual property council
All Members participate in all committees (Except Dispute settlement and Textiles monitoring body)
Organizational Structure
GENERAL COUNCIL
GOODS COUNCIL SERVICES COUNCIL TRIPS COUNCIL
MINISTERIAL COUNCIL
India and WTO
Contribution of 0.747% to WTO’s Budget ’08
68% contribution to world’s total manufacture exports in 2006
India’s Commitments To WTO
Tariff Lines
Quantitative Restrictions (QRs)
Tariff Lines
“It is when a country ‘binds’ a tariff rate by committing that it will not raise tariff on that product beyond the ‘bound’ level.”
Tariff Lines
73.8% of Indian Tariff lines are bound
36.2% for non agro goods
Quantitative Restrictions:
• It is the restrictions imposed by WTO on the quantities that a country can import or export. Such restrictions are also imposed on India but looking at the fast growing economy of India WTO has removed this restrictions from a number of items like the Quantitative restriction on 714 items was removed in Exim Policy on 31st March 2000 and again the Quantitative restriction on 715 items was removed on 31st March 2001.
Quantitative Restrictions
QRs on 714 items removed in Exim Policy on 31st March 2000
QRs on 715 items removed on 31st March 2001
Benefits to India
Benefits from Phasing out of MFA (Multi Fiber Arrangements)
Expansion in trade
Improved prospects for Agro exports
Thank You !!!
Presented By Group 5 Ashish Khera Jasmine Framjee Manish Baradia Nidhi Goyal Pallavi Khanna Pradeep Singh Shreshtha Varun Khurana