ABSTRACT
The Uruguay Round negotiations distinguished themselves from earlier ones by their complexity. The negotiations that had been on the scene since the Havana Agreements had been interested solely in the trade in goods, for the main objective of the economic governance in place since the Second World War had been to avoid a recurrence of the 1930s’ Depression that had led the world to war (Prakash 2000). The Uruguay Round, on the other hand, enlarged the scope of negotiations to include integration in depth, services, intellectual property, and investment; issues that until then had not previously been negotiated, except for a short interlude connected to an international investment code negotiated (without success) by the United Nations and the OECD.
