Protesters, World Trade Organization meeting, Seattle, Washington, 1999. Reproduced by permission. United States...

In December, 1999, the streets of Seattle, Washington, filled with billowing clouds of tear gas and pepper spray as squadrons of police in full riot gear skirmished with surging masses of protestors in the most confrontational political...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the largest, most powerful international organization dealing with global rules of trade among nations. It was formed in 1995 following the so-called Uruguay Round of negotiations under the General Agreement on...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) was set up by the meeting in Marrakesh of its predecessor organization, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and came into existence in 1995. GATT itself had been created in 1947 as part of the post-war...

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was an international organization created in 1947 to reduce trade barriers through multilateral negotiations. The World Trade Organization (WTO) was organized in January 1995 to replace GATT and improve...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization which manages the rules of trade between nations. Established on 1 January 1995 from the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT), it exists to provide a...

International organization based in Geneva that supervises world trade. It was created in 1995 to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Like its predecessor, it aims to lower trade barriers and encourage multilateral trade. It...

The successor to GATT inaugurated in 1995 and based in Geneva, Switzerland. It administers the global rules of trade of a multilateral trading system to facilitate and to encourage world trade. It has over 140 member countries and covers more than 90...

The World Trade Organization (WTO), (OMC - Spanish: Organización Mundial del Comercio, French: Organisation mondiale du commerce), is an international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade. The WTO came into being on...