Uruguay Round

Burchfiel and co-workers, in I. Kayton, ed.. Practice Under Gatt s Uruguay Round Agreements Act, Patent Resources Institute, 1995. 

Correa, C. (1997), The Uruguay Round and Drugs, Washington World Health Organization. 

Martin, W. and Winters, A. (eds) 1995. The Uruguay Round and the Developing Economies. The World Bank, Washington, DC. 

The Indian pharmaceutical story is not finished and great changes are on the horizon. As the Uruguay Round came to a close, India was one of the developing countries that... 

Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, Legal Texts, Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 1995. 

Throughout the Uruguay Round, the usa repeatedly put on its Special 301 watch list countries that supposedly did not provide the kind of iprs protection... 

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade numbered 23 Members when it was formed in 1947. By the time the Uruguay Round concluded, and GATT was replaced by the wto, it had 117 Members. As of May 2002, the wto has 144 Members and 28 applicants are negotiating accession. 

Fast-track gave the us administration the necessary power to negotiate the Uruguay Round. Incidentally, on 6 December 2001, the Bush administration secured a similar authority, presently named the Trade Promotion Authority (tpa). It permits negotiating in a new round of global trade talks set to begin in 2002. 

Braga, Carlos A. Primo (1996). Trade-related Intellectual Property Issues the Uruguay Round Agreement and its Economic Implications. In The Uruguay Round and the Developing Countries (Will Martin and Alan Winters, eds). Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 

Croome, John (1995). Reshaping the World Trading System—A History of the Uruguay Round. Geneva wto. 

World Trade Organisation (2000a) Agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures, in The Legal Texts—The Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Cambridge University Press, pp. 59-120. 

Application filed June 8, 1995-May 28, 2000 The Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) 20 years from filing date but with up to five years extension for delays resulting from secrecy orders, interferences, and/or successful appears. 

On certain issues, no agreement was reached in the Uruguay Round negotiations and a peace clause was included in the Agreement participants committed themselves to abstaining from retaliation in order to facilitate continuation of dialogue on unresolved matters. Presumably, the peace clause will end in 2003 unless an extension is negotiated. 

Uruguay Round Agreements Act extends the patent terms of US. drugs from 17 to 20 years. 

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