GATT/WTO Documentation

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After the basic text of the Agreement, you will often need to use the following GATT publications:

Instruments include protocols, agreements, declarations, procès-verbal, memoranda, certifications, or arrangements. Volume IV of the BISD is published annually in numbered supplements with a cumulative subject index for the series in each volume. The latest supplement published to date is No. 42 covering the 51st Session (1995).

Documents from the different negotiating rounds have been reprinted by the GATT and are also often published by commercial publishers. Check LawCat using the name of the Multilateral Round in a word search: Tokyo, Kennedy, Dillon, Uruguay.

Since the United States is a Contracting Party to the GATT, and now the WTO, you can use Treaties in Force as an index to GATT instruments. Check agreement and accession documents and under "Trade and Commerce – GATT related Agreements" for all other treaty document cites. See also multilateral treaty indexes for this information, such as the Multilateral Treaty Calendar.

Originally prepared by Ellen Schaffer. Completely revised and expanded by Marci Hoffman, International and Foreign Law Librarian, UC Berkeley Law Library. Revised August 2006.