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AFRICA IN THE FIRST DECADE OF WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT

AFRICA IN THE FIRST DECADE OF WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT "... We are distrustful of any rules and institutions which operate in a way to keep Africans perpetually as primary producers...'" Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria (1962). "... For you know as well as we do...that right, as the world goes, is in question only between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must...." Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, The Crawley, Translation, 351 (T.E. Wick, ed., Random House 1982). 1. Introduction The conclusion of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations was a turning point in the history of global economic relations.' Besides ushering in the WTO, whose Members agreed to fourteen substantive agreements, many of which specify the coverage and application of the more general provisions in the initial General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), it brought about a certain momentum to the process of further economic liberalization that reverberates to date. Whereas the GATT covered trade in goods and only applied to a very limited extent agricultural and textile products, the WTO covers trade in services and intellectual property rights, as well as trade in all goods, including agricultural and textile products. In addition, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Yearbook of International Law Online Brill

AFRICA IN THE FIRST DECADE OF WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT

African Yearbook of International Law Online , Volume 12 (1): 37 – Jan 1, 2004
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"... We are distrustful of any rules and institutions which operate in a way to keep Africans perpetually as primary producers...'" Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria (1962). "... For you know as well as we do...that right, as the world goes, is in question only between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must...." Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, The Crawley, Translation, 351 (T.E. Wick, ed., Random House 1982). 1. Introduction The conclusion of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations was a turning point in the history of global economic relations.' Besides ushering in the WTO, whose Members agreed to fourteen substantive agreements, many of which specify the coverage and application of the more general provisions in the initial General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), it brought about a certain momentum to the process of further economic liberalization that reverberates to date. Whereas the GATT covered trade in goods and only applied to a very limited extent agricultural and textile products, the WTO covers trade in services and intellectual property rights, as well as trade in all goods, including agricultural and textile products. In addition,

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