ABSTRACT

With the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations and the commitments of the OECD countries to open their markets for developing countries’ exports, one of the demands of the Agenda 21 of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) has been fulfilled: The international community should […] strengthen the international trade policies system through an early, balanced, comprehensive and successful outcome of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations’ [UN, 1992]. During the next decade, the Contracting Parties of the GATT will have to adjust their trade policies to the agreements of the Uruguay Round and open their markets further to imports from developing countries.