Marrakesh Agreement
The Marrakesh Agreement, manifested by the Marrakesh Declaration, was an agreement signed in Marrakesh, Morocco, by 123 nations on 15 April 1994, marking the culmination of the 8-year-long Uruguay Round and establishing the World Trade Organization, which officially came into being on 1 January 1995.[1]
| Type | Multilateral treaty |
|---|---|
| Signed | 15 April 1994 |
| Location | Marrakesh, Morocco |
The agreement developed out of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), supplemented by a number of other agreements on issues including trade in services, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, trade-related aspects of intellectual property and technical barriers to trade. It also established a new, more efficient and legally binding means of dispute resolution. The various agreements which make up the Marrakesh Agreement combine as an indivisible whole; no entity can be party to any one agreement without being party to them all.
References
- Marrakesh Declaration of 15 April 1994 at World Trade Organization
External links
- An unofficial chart of the Marrakech Agreement (at WTO Cell, Government of the Punjab)