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GATT/WTO Documents at Stanford
Guide to Government Publications Series
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
The World Trade Organization (WTO), established on 1 January 1995,
is the legal and institutional foundation of the multilateral trading
system. It provides the principal contractual obligations determining
how governments frame and implement domestic trade legislation and
regulations. And it is the platform on which trade relations among
countries evolve through collective debate, negotiation and adjudication.
Its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, was
established in 1947in Havana.
The Green Library was designated in 1952 as one of the original
depository libraries for publications of the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade. And the Green Library remains an official depository
for publications of the World Trade Organization.
The following guide outlines the basic resources for those beginning
research on GATT and WTO at Stanford. In general, all major GATT
and WTO publications, including texts of the various rounds of trade
negotiations, and other basic publications offered for sale by the
organization, can be found by searching Socrates,
the Libraries’ web catalog.
The Social
Sciences Resource Center (SSRC) houses a large collection of
internal documents that have been derestricted and reproduced on
microfiche. The collection and its indexes are described in the
section below entitled Derestricted
Documents.
BACKGROUND AND CURRENT AWARENESS
- WTO Guide to Documentation. Geneva, WTO: 1996.
- Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center: HF1371
W694 1996
Provides an overview of GATT and WTO publishing since 1948. Describes
relationship of organizations to symbol numbers and document derestriction
policies.
- WTO Homepage
- Internet: http://www.wto.org
A tremendous source of background information about the organization
including overviews of the organization's structure, dispute resolution
process, trade policy review mechanism, and a variety of topical
reviews (goods, services, environment, development, intellectual
property). The site also includes full text of all derestricted
documents issued since 1995, selected full text legal instruments,
and an online facility for ordering publications.
- WTO World Trade Organization: Trading into the Future.
Geneva: WTO: 1999.
- Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center: HF1371
.W68 1999 F
Provides a broad overview of the organization's history, functions,
structure, dispute resolution process, and sector overviews.
BASIC LEGAL INSTRUMENTS
- Analytical Index of the GATT: Guide to GATT Law & Practices.
Sixth edition. Geneva, 1994.
- Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center: K4603
1947 .A44G85 1994
Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center Microfiche: MFICHE
2407
A collection of decisions, panel reports and discussions between
contracting parties which bear on the legal interpretation of
the General Agreement through the end of November 1993.
- Basic Instruments and Selected Documents (BISD). Geneva,
GATT: 1952-1969.
- Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center: K4602
G46 v.1-4
Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center Microfiche: MFICHE
2408
Reproduces the GATT base treaty and revisions.
- Basic Instruments and Selected Documents: Supplement. Geneva,
GATT: 1952-
- Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center: K4602
G462
Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center Microfiche: MFICHE
2408 supplement
Annual publication reproducing protocols, decisions and key reports
of the organization. A cumulative index to the series appears
at the end of each supplement
Results of the Uruguay Round [CDROM]
Green Library, Media-Microtext: ZMS 937
Complete text and schedules resulting from the Uruguay Round
of trade negotiations. Includes all the rules and commitments
of each country, and all the schedules of concessions on goods
and services. Includes product-by-product lists of tariff rates
for merchandise goods and agricultural products, and schedules
of commitments/exemptions on services.
Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations [Microform]:
Legal Instruments Embodying the Results of the Uruguay
Round of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations done at Marrakesh
on 15 April 1994.
Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center Microfiche: MFICHE
2395
INDEXES AND CATALOGS
- List and Index of Documents Issued in [year]. Geneva,
GATT: 1981- current
- Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center: Z7164
T2 G46B
Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center Microfiche: MFICHE
2387
This is an annual detailed index to GATT documents issued since
and WTO documents issued since 1995. The documents are indexed
by: subject; product; country; articles of the main legal texts;
and other GATT instruments. Cumulative editions cover 1984-1988
and 1989-1992.
- List of Documents Issued From [year].; Documents Index for
[year]. Geneva, GATT: 1948-1980
- Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center Microfiche:
MFICHE 2386
These predecessors to the List and Index of Documents above
were issued irregularly between 1948 and 1980. For some years
a combined List and Index was issued. For other years
the List is issued annually and a Documents Index
is issued annually or semiannually.
- List & Index of Uruguay Round Documents Issued Between 1986-1994.
Geneva, GATT: 1994.
- Green Library, Social Sciences Resource Center: Z7164
T2G46 1994
- Socrates
- Internet: http://library.stanford.edu/socrates
All GATT and WTO publications received as part of Stanford's status
as a GATT and WTO depository library, or acquired by purchase,
are cataloged in Socrates,
the Library's web-based catalog. You can search for specific titles
using "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" or "World Trade
Organization" in the "author" field (Simple Search) or "organization"
field (Combined search).
DERESTRICTED DOCUMENTS
A large collection of "derestricted" GATT/WTO documents are available
to the Stanford community and the general public. These documents
include committee working papers, reports, meeting records, communications
and memoranda, background documents, agreements and other documents.
The collection is shelved in the Green
Library Social Sciences Resource Center Microfiche area under
the call number MFICHE 2384. Documents issued between 1946-1983
are filed alphanumerically by symbol number. In 1984 GATT began
issuing all its documents in annual sets with multiple documents
placed on the same microfiche. In order to locate documents published
after 1983 in the annual sets you must consult the List and
Index and identify the specific document microfiche number
(e.g., 96-2931 MF).
The GATT/WTO documents collection includes all or some of the
following document series:
| AC/: Action Committee |
L/: General Series |
| ADMINISTRATIVE MEMORANDUM/: |
LET/: Letters |
| ADP/: Cttee on Anti-Dumping Practices |
LA/: Latin American Informative Group |
| AG/: Cttee on Trade in Agriculture |
LDC/: Least-Developed Countries |
| AIR/: Cttee on Trade in Civil Aircraft |
LEGAL/: Cttee on the Legal...Framework...LDC's |
| BOP/: Cttee on Balance of Payments Restrictions |
LIC/: Cttee on Import Licensing |
| C/: Council |
MCDP/: Arrangement.Certain Dairy Products |
| CG/: Commodity Group Documents |
MCMF/: Mgmt to the Protocol Relating to Milk Fat |
| CG/: Group on Cereals and Meat |
MDF/: Ministerial Decision Follow-up |
| CG18/: Consultative Group of Eighteen |
MGT/: Series |
| COM.AD/: Agriculture Committee |
MIN(61): Meeting of Ministers (1961) |
| COM.IND/: Cttee on Trade in Industrial Products |
MIN(63): Meeting of Ministers (1963) |
| COM.TD/: Ctee on Trade and Development |
MIN(73): Meeting of Ministers (1973) |
| COM.TEX/: Textiles Cttee.Surveillance Body |
NTM/: Non-Tariff Measures & Quantative Restrictions |
| COT/: Cotton Textiles Committee |
OD/: Contracting Parties |
| CP/: Contracting Parties |
PREP.COM/: 1981 Preparatory Committee |
| CPC/: Committee of Participating Countries |
PREP.COM(86)/: 1986 Preparatory Committee |
| C/RM/: Trade Policy Review Mechanism |
QRC/: Consultative Committee -Article XII:4(b) |
| DPC/: International Dairy Products Council |
SCM/: Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures |
| DPC/C/: Cttee of the Protocol.Certain Cheeses |
SEC/: Secret Documents |
| DPC/F/: Cttee of the Protocol.Milk Fat |
SECRET/CP/: Contracting Parties - Secret Docs |
| DPC/P/: Cttee of the Protocol.Milk Powders |
SGTP/: Spec. Group on Trade in Tropical Products |
| DPC/STAT/Spec/: Int'l Dairy Products Council |
SPEC(): Special Distribution Series |
| DPG/: Domestically Prohibited Goods |
SR: Contracting Parties |
| DS: Dispute Resolution |
TA/: Technical Assistance Series |
| E/CONF.2: Trade & Emp't Conf, Havana (`47-'48) |
TAR/: Committee on Tariff Concessions |
| E/PC/T/: UN ECOSOC-Prep Cttee ('47) |
TBT/: Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade |
| FORTY: Forty: Contracting Parties |
TC/: Trade Policy Courses |
| G/: General Series |
TE/: Trade and Environment |
| GATT/ Contracting Parties |
TEX/: Working Party on Trade in Textiles |
| GATT/AIR/: Airgrams |
THIRTY: Contracting Parties |
| GATT/CEA/: Cttee on Special Exchange Agreem'ts |
TRE/: Group on Environmental Measures and Int'l Trade |
| GATT/IC/: Intersessional Cttee |
TN.56/: Tariff Conference (`56) |
| GATT/OFFICE CIRCULAR |
TN.60/: Tariff Conference - Dillon Round (`60) |
| GATT/TN.1/:Tariff Negotiations,Annecy ('49) |
TN.64/: Tariff Conference - Kennedy Round (`64) |
| GATT/TN.2/:Tariff Negotiations,Torquay (`50-'51) |
TN(LDC): Trade Negotiations Cttee of Developing Countries |
| GATT/40: GATT Anniversary |
TNB/: Trade Negotiations Committee - Brazil |
| GPR/: Cttee on Government Procurement |
TNC/: Trade Negotiations Committee - Cuba |
| GS/: GATT Staff Council |
TNJ/: Trade Negotiations Committee - Japan |
| IC/: Intercessional Cttee |
TNS/: Trade Negotiations Committee - Switzerland |
| ICITO/: Interim Commission for the ITO |
VACANCY NOTICE |
| IDB/: Integrated Data Base |
VAL/: Committee on Customs Valuation |
| IMC/: Int'l Meat Council |
W/: Contracting Parties |
| IMCG/: Int'l Meat Consultative Group |
W(62) to W(72): Intersessional Misc. Working Papers |
| INF/: Information |
WP.2/W/: Working Party on Article XVIII |
| INT()/: Internal |
|
RESTRICTED DOCUMENTS
At present, a large number of GATT and WTO documents are issued
as "restricted" documents. Such documents are generally issued by
the Secretariat only to representatives of WTO member governments,
representatives of those governments, and international organizations
with observer status at the WTO. Stanford owns a set of restricted
documents under terms of a special agreement. The "restricted" documents
collection is kept in a secure location and is not generally available
either to the Stanford community or the general public. On an annual
basis, GATT/WTO derestricts material from this collection. At the
date of this guide's publication, all documents of the Tokyo Round
(1974-1979) Uruguay Round (1986-1994) except for the final acts
remain restricted. Many documents issued in the series above remain
restricted, as do the following series in their entirety:
| COM/IND/W/: |
MTN/: Multilateral Trade Negotiations Cttee |
| C/W/: |
TAR/Spec/: |
Last modified:
May 30, 2006
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