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Whose Trade Organization?: The Comprehensive Guide to the Wto

A Comprehensive Guide to the World Trade Organization-2nd Edition

Author: Lori Wallach and Patrick Woodall  

This study explores the real record and legacy of the World Trade Organization. As the worlds highest authority on global trade, the WTO has extended its reach into the democratic processes of local communities, in determining what local laws interfere with international commerce.

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This study explores the real record and legacy of the World Trade Organization. As the worlds highest authority on global trade, the WTO has extended its reach into the democratic processes of local communities, in determining what local laws interfere with international commerce.

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Many people are surprised when they first learn that trade is only a small element of the World Trade Organization, but the WTO actually covers a huge array of subjects never before included in trade agreements. The new agreements that were born with the WTO almost nine years ago included 800-plus pages of rules that interfere with food safety standards, environmental laws, social service polices, intellectual property standards, government procurement rules, and more.

Whose Trade Organization? is the definitive guide to the reign of this undemocratic "trade" regime that has sparked protests from Seattle to Quebec to Genoa. With case-by-case studies, the book exposes the lopsided agreements and secret tribunals that are the tools of the WTO's trade, and reveals the aggressive corporate agenda at its core. This myth-busting guide explains cutting-edge conflicts over rainforest destruction, genetically modified foods, sweatshops, lifesaving drugs, and many other global issues. And it offers critical and timely prescriptions for challenging the WTO and building a public-centered, democratic alternative.


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No country can be allowed to resist American cultural imperialism.

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About the Author

Lori Wallach is the director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, which was created in 1995 to promote government and corporate accountability in the globalization and trade arena. GTW promotes a public interest perspective on an array of globalization issues, including implications for health and safety, environmental protection, economic justice, and democratic, accountable governance.

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This book explores the real record and legacy of the World Trade Organization. In its eight years of being the world's highest authority on global trade, the WTO has extended its reach into the democratic processes of local communities, in determining what local laws - from worker protections to anti-child labor statutes - interfere with international commerce. Through a battery of new agreements and legal challenges--whose outcomes are determined in secret courts, presided over by judges partial to the industries that bring the suits--the group furthers its one purpose: spreading the corporate economic globalization trade agenda, over concerns of democratic and accountable government.

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Product Details

Publisher
New Press | The New Press
Published
31st March 2004
Edition
2nd
Pages
320
ISBN
9781565848412

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