LEX MERCATORIA: PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW *************************************************** PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW - TREATIES RELATED TO FREE TRADE AND OR ECONOMIC UNION ============================================================================== GATT AND THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION ------------------------------------- WORLD TRADE AGREEMENT ..................... WTA/ GATT 1994 (Urugyay Round); The Final Act and Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Uruguay Round (including GATT 1994). Marrakesh, 15 April 1994. [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^1] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Other Major Ministerial Declarations and Decision (Courtesy of Kazuo Chujo - source documents. [link: ] Additional check not made.): Geneva Ministerial Declaration (Adopted on 20 May 1998) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^2] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] WTO Declaration on Global Electronic Commerce (Adopted on 20 May 1998) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^3] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Singapore Ministerial Declaration (Adopted on 13 December 1996) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^4] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Marrakesh Declaration of 15 April 1994 [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^5] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Ministerial Declaration on the Uruguay Round (Declaration of 20 September 1986, Punta del Este) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^6] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Thirty-Eight Session at Ministerial Level Ministerial Declaration (Adopted on 29 November 1982, Geneva) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^7] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Differential and More Favourable Treatment Reciprocity and Fuller Participation of Developing Countries (Decision of 28 November 1979) ("Enabling Clause") [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^8] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] The World Trade Organization Home Page [link: ] Alternative location [link: ] Acrobat (PDF) files [link: ] [link: ] White House "US National Documents" gopher://cyfer.esusda.gov/11/ace/hot.topic.links/gatt Gopher version and WP5.1 and other text formats. WTA/WTO (OMC) French text. [link: ] WTA/WTO (OMC) German text. [link: ] WTA/WTO Japanese text [link: ] WTA/WTO Spanish text. [link: ] WTO Guides and Summaries WTO on the WTO [link: ] WTO - Frequently Asked Questions [link: ] GATT - Law Library Research Guides [link: ] by Katherine Topulos Duke University OAS Summary Description of the Uruguay Round Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization [link: ] Guide to WTO [link: ] by Inquit WTO Panel Decisions [link: ] Lyonette Louis-Jacques International Contract Advisor on the WTO and GATT, [link: ] Law Journal Extra The World Trade Organization [link: ] and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [link: ] What's in a Name? by Jonathan Agmon, Stacey Halpern and David Pauker Rowe & Maw [link: ] UK Book title: "The World Trading System : Law and Policy of International Economic Relations" by John H. Jackson [link: ] gopher://gopher.law.cornell.edu/00/foreign/fletcher/BH209.txt GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947 as amended through 1966) WTO Ministerial Declaration, Singapore [link: ] WTO Ministerial Declaration on Trade in Information Technology Products, Singapore [link: ] WTO - Guide to Law Online [link: ] US Library of Congress Seattle December 1999 spawned protest (on the streets and in cyberspace) from a wide variety of sources with differing and sometimes conflicting agenda, which included: environmentalists; developing countries; and trade unions. Ruckus News | Globalize This! News Coverage [link: ] WTO spoof look alike site [link: ] "ITLR - International Trade Law Reports" - on WTO conflict resolution, [link: ] Cameron May. Requested links. MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT (MAI) ------------------------------------------ MAI Negotiating Text [link: ] MAI Negotiating Text [link: ] OECD on MAI [link: ] Yahoo MAI links [link: ] The Multilateral Agreement on Investment [link: ] MAI - Globalization [link: ] Globalisation and the MAI Information Centre [link: ] MAI Information Page [link: ] Globalazation and the MAI [link: ] Global Trade Watch Home Page [link: ] MAI [link: ] Global Policy Forum [link: ] Multilateral Agreement on Investment [link: ] MAI Environmental Fact Page [link: ] Multinational Monitor [link: ] Flora [link: ] MAI Not [link: ] MAI potential effects on State and local government [link: ] In Focus: MAI [link: ] MAI [link: ] Multinational Monitor [link: ] Democracy for Sale? Booklet [link: ] EUROPEAN UNION (MAASTRICHT) --------------------------- Maastricht Treaty [link: ], EU EU Member States Alternative locations: Full texts (gopher): ⌠Maastricht Treaty⌡gopher://vinga.hum.gu.se/11/hds/maas also at the ⌠LII⌡gopher://fatty.law.cornell.edu:70/11/foreign/maastricht & in ⌠Norway⌡gopher://ugle.unit.no:8300/11/pub/misc/maastricht Text search: European Union Information Sources. [link: ] European Union Information Sources. [link: ] European Union Pages Online [link: ] European Union Offices and Information Centers [link: ] European Union Internet Resources [link: ] European Union Subject Headings [link: ] European Information Association [link: ] Other European Information Sites [link: ] EuroInternet [link: ] European Union Resources [link: ] Maastricht Norsk tekst [link: ] Celex on the Web [link: ] EU Market Access Database [link: ] The Maastricht Treaty [link: ] European Integration Online Papers (EIoP) [link: ] The first interdisciplinary, peer reviewed publication on the Web in the field of European Integration, at the Austrian branch of the European Communities Studies Association. Editor in Chief Michael Nentwich. Launched 10 April 1997. NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT ----------------------------------- North American Free Trade Agreement [link: ] Nafta [link: ] NAFTA French text [link: ] NAFTA Resources on the Internet [link: ] Nafta Resources [link: ] The National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade [link: ] Nafta Resource Directory [link: ] NAFTA Net [link: ] NataNet - Treaties, Free Trade Agreements, & International Agreements [link: ] National Law Center for Inter American Free Trade NAFTA Lab [link: ] OAS Overview of NAFTA [link: ] Alternative locations of NAFTA (gophers): AGREEMENTS .......... Text of Trade Agreements [link: ] Organization of American States RELATED JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS ................................ Washington International Report [link: ] Arent Fox Law Journal EXTRA: [link: ] "International Law" Public-Domain.Org [link: ] on intellectual property. GENERAL ....... PAIS [link: ] OCLC Public Affairs Information Service "current issues and actions which affect the world communities, countries, and governments." Hot Topics [link: ] Global Policy Forum [link: ] "we monitor global policy making at the United Nations" CUSTOMS ------- International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures [link: ] (Kyoto, 18 May 1973) | Amending Supplement No. 13 - January 1993 World Customs Organization (refind) SITES ..... Wasserman, Schneider & Babb [link: ] International Trade Links [link: ] Braumiller & Rodriguez, L.L.C. [link: ] a Customs and International Trade Law Firm TRADE REGULATION AND CORRUPTION ------------------------------- United Nations Convention Against Corruption (2003) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^9] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] REGIONAL GROUPINGS AND HARMONIZING INSTRUMENTS ---------------------------------------------- Will consider development of this page and its relationship to other listings on this site including See also: Organizations AFRICA ...... OHADA ORGANIZATION FOR HARMONIZATION OF AFRICAN BUSINESS LAW (OHADA) TREATY, 1993, MAURITIUS .............................................................................. Francophone initiative, signed in Mauritius in 1993, entered into effect in July 1995 after the seventh ratification. Open to any member of the OAU (Organization of African Unity). Ohada Website [link: ] resource is in French See article [link: ] by Dr. Roland Amoussou-Guenou "Article 3 of the Treaty has set up an organisation in charge of its implementation, named 'Organization for Harmonization of African Business Laws, (OHADA) which comprises a Council of Ministers and a Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA). The Council of Minister is assisted by a Permanent Secretary to which is attached a Regional Institute of Magistrates installed in Porto-Novo (Benin). * the Uniform Act on General Business Law * the Uniform Act on the Company Laws and Pooling of Economic Interest * the Uniform Act on organisation of securities Three other Uniform Acts (on Bankruptcy law, Debt collection and Enforcement law, Accounting law) are being drafted and will probably be adopted on April 1st 1998." A regional commercial arbitration court is to be established in Ivory Coast by the middle of 1999. COMESA ...... COMESA [link: ] Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa THE AMERICAS ............ Legal Information Institute [link: ] Cornell University School of Law MERCOSUR [link: ] Mercado Comun del Cono Sur (Southern Cone Common Market) The Mercosur Economic Research Network [link: ] See Nafta in the section on Free Trade ASIA .... ASEAN [link: ] Visit: AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute [link: ] AUSTRALIA ......... Visit: AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute [link: ] THE COMMONWEALTH ................ The Commonwealth [link: ] BAILII [link: ] British and Irish Legal Information Institute (2000) GROUP OF 8 .......... Group of 8 [link: ] Unofficial EUROPE ...... European Union Sources [link: ] from Europa [link: ] European Union Members and Sources See Maastricht in the section on Free Trade The Principles Of European Contract Law 1998 Council of Europe [link: ] OECD .... OECD [link: ] OECD Washington [link: ] PACIFIC ....... "WORLD" ....... See also: Organizations ICC ... International Chamber of Commerce [link: ] UNITED NATIONS .............. United Nations [link: ] United Nations trade related resources HAGUE CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW ............................................. Hague Conference on Private International Law [link: ] HC-PIL - locally maintained information UNIDROIT ........ Unidroit [link: ] Unidroit - locally maintained information INVESTMENT ---------- Arbitration Jurisdiction and Enforcement Insolvency Protection of Intellectual Property Free Trade Other Harmonizing Instruments OECD on Investment [link: ] [1]: [2]: [3]: [4]: [5]: [6]: [7]: [8]: [9]: ============================================================================== Title: Lex Mercatoria: Public International Commercial Law Creator: Ralph Amissah Amissah Rights: Copyright (C) 2004 Ralph Amissah Amissah Subject: public international commercial law, international economic law Publisher: SiSU http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu (this copy) Date: 2004 Sourcefile: public.international.commercial.law.sst Filetype: SiSU text 2.0 Source digest: SHA256(public.international.commercial.law.sst)= 3821ddd4cb195b807b982cbfdd43839cdf7f550af45ea37c154a1497b1bae631 Skin digest: SHA256(skin_lm.rb)= 5acda64a9532f9ef6b71693da2b471d4efac2f23a8499e68de066eec8ea9b8e9 Generated by: Generated by: SiSU 2.6.3 of 2010w30/3 (2010-07-28) Ruby version: ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i486-linux] Document (dal) last generated: Tue Sep 21 17:29:31 -0400 2010 ============================================================================== Other versions of this document: manifest: http://www.jus.uio.no/lm//public.international.commercial.law/sisu_manifest.html html: http://www.jus.uio.no/lm//public.international.commercial.law/toc.html pdf: http://www.jus.uio.no/lm//public.international.commercial.law/portrait.pdf http://www.jus.uio.no/lm//public.international.commercial.law/landscape.pdf plaintext (plain text): http://www.jus.uio.no/lm//public.international.commercial.law/plain.txt at: http://lexmercatoria.org * Generated by: SiSU 2.6.3 of 2010w30/3 (2010-07-28) * Ruby version: ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i486-linux] * Last Generated on: Tue Sep 21 17:29:35 -0400 2010 * SiSU http://www.sisudoc.org/