Uruguay Round agreements

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

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. 

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. 

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

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

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. 

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. 

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. 

General Agreement on Trade in Services, Uruguay Round Agreanent, Article n 1. 

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