口译分类词汇：WTO术语英文解释（1）

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General

GATT — General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which has been superseded as an international organization by the WTO. An updated General Agreement is now one of the WTO’s agreements.

GATT 1947 — The old (pre-1994) version of the GATT.

GATT 1994 — The new version of the General Agreement, incorporated into the WTO, which governs trade in goods.

Members — WTO governments (first letter capitalized, in WTO style).

MFN — Most-favoured-nation treatment (GATT Article I, GATS Article II and TRIPS Article 4), the principle of not discriminating between one’s trading partners.national treatment — The principle of giving others the same treatment as one’s own nationals. GATT Article III requires that imports be treated no less favourably than the same or similar domestically-produced goods once they have passed customs. GATS Article XVII and TRIPS Article 3 also deal with national treatment for services and intellectual property protection.

TPRB, TPRM — The Trade Policy Review Body is General Council operating under special procedures for meetings to review trade policies and practices of individual WTO members under the Trade

Policy Review Mechanism.

transparency — Degree to which trade policies and practices, and the process by which they are established, are open and predictable.

Uruguay Round — Multilateral trade negotiations launched at Punta del Este, Uruguay in September 1986 and concluded in Geneva in December 1993. Signed by Ministers in Marrakesh, Morocco, in April 1994.

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