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You can find more information on WTO activities and issues on the WTO

Website. The site is created around" gateways" leading to various subjects- for example, the" trade topics" gateway or the" Doha Development Agenda" gateway. Each gateway provides links to all material on its subject.

References in this text show you where to find the material. This is in the form of a path through gateways, starting with one of the navigation links in the top right of the honepage or any other page on the site. For example, to find material on the agriculture negotiations, you go through this ceries of geteways and links:

www. wto. org <trade topics <goods <agriculture <

agriculture negotiations

You can follow this path, either by clicking driectli on the links, or via drop- down menus that wila appear in most browsers when you place your cursor over the" trade topics" link at the top of nay web page on the site.

A word o caution: the fine print

while every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the text in this booklet, it cannot be taken as an official legal interpretation of the agreements.

In addition, sone simplifications are used in order to keep the text simple and clear.

In particular, the words" country" and" nation" are frequently used to describe WTO members, wheresa a few members are officially" customs territories", and not necessarily countries in the usula sense of the word( see list of members ). The same applies when participants in trade negotiations are called" countries" or" nations".

Where there is little risk of misunder stanbing the word" member" is dropped from" member countris( nations, governments )", for example in the descriptions of the WTO agreements. Naturally, the agreements and commitments do not apply to non- members.

In some parts of the text, GATT is described as an" international organization", The phrase reflects GATT's de facto role before the WTO was created, and it is used simplistically here to help readersun derstand that role. As the text points out, this role was always ad hoc, without a proper legal oundation. International law did not recognize GATT as an organization

For simplicity, the text uses the term" GATT members". Officially, since GATT was a treaty and not a legally- established organization, GATT signatories were" contracting parties".

And, for easier reading, article numbers in GATT and GATs have been translated from Roman numbers into European digits.

Graphic Design: Atelier Ki

Cover and illustrations: Helder da Silva

Photos: Jay Louvion, Studio Casagrande, PU and WTO Secretariat