WTO Compliance Report

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The world today is characterized as a globalized world and the WTO is a key player in the

globalization of the world. The world trade organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization

that oversees the trade activities among member nations. The WTO is the successor of the General

Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), it was formed during the Uruguay round and it came into

existence in 1995. The WTO provides a forum for member states to negotiate and carry out trade

activities amongst each other based on the rules and regulation of the organization and also to reduce

trade barriers and plans to eliminate it completely in the future, it also tries to help developing

countries. The WTO is made up of 160 members with majority …show more content…

Based on the point mentioned above, I support the idea that the effective

graduation system should be applied in the WTO, as this will bring about more equality and efficiency.

In the article Ten Years of the WTO: A Success Story of Global Governance by Mike Moore,

the author talks about the success and effectiveness of the WTO. The author began by talking about

how the WTO has risen to become a forum of global governance, he stated that almost all countries

want to be members and communist countries like china are part of it. Furthermore, he talks about the

principles of equality in the WTO. The author talks about how the WTO tries to ensure that all

members are treated equally by using policies such as the most favored nation treatment, national

treatment. Finally the author talks about the challenges that WTO faces, he talked about issues such as

the technological development of some members, since the majority members of the organization …show more content…

Like Moore stated in his article, equality is a key issue in every

organization and there is inequality there will be no success, the WTO has been able to rid itself of

inequality and due to this it has been able to act effectively.

In the article Building on the WTO'S Success by William A. Niskanen, views WTO has the

single most effective international agency (2000). According to Niskanen the WTO has been effective

in his duties and for it to continue to be effective some amendments should be made. Firstly, the

members of the WTO keep increasing and almost all countries are now members and this may lead to

overloading the organization, according to the author if this happens the organization will lose its

effectiveness and to solve this problem, Niskanen believes that the WTO should enforce broader rules

that will make some members pull out of the organization. Secondly the author stated that amendments

should be made in the area of giving sanctions to offenders, according to the author, retaliatory

sanctions should be reduced rather offenders should compensate the aggravated government and

retaliatory sanctions should only be used if offenders fail to abide by the WTO rulings.

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