The World Trade Organization: The Role Of The World Trade Organization

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The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we've only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too. -Noreena Hertz
The World Trade Organization is a global organization that deals with the rules of trade between nations. Also, it is an organization that enforces number of treaties and agreements that are agreed upon by member-states. Its main agendas are to ensure the smooth, fair and free flow of trade, to make trade negotiations among member-states possible and to help developing countries. It is created on January 1, 1995 and literally based in Geneva, Switzerland. This organization is composed of 140+ countries. So, as the WTO be renowned in the world as time goes by many people especially the experts in this field are been studying and criticizing how this organization works and how does it affect the world. It has been a source of controversy ever since. It is a well known big organization that only deals with trade …show more content…

WTO already dominated almost all countries, so it is already easy to dominate and influence non member-states. If that happens, rules of the WTO will be impose to all countries creating a global constitution that every states must abide to its laws and if not they will encounter economic sanctions. I believe, WTO only focused on economic sphere but because of their way of implementing their rules and conditions they can already control the country as a whole. If the WTO continues to dominate countries across the globe they will not just control the governments but rather it will result to controlling the

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