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Locating the Text of the Agreements

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Official citations

The official citations for the GATT are: TIAS 1700; 55 U.N.T.S. 194. Its Protocol of Provisional Application is located at TIAS 1700; 55 U.N.T.S. 308.

The WTO agreement has been published in several volumes of U.N.T.S. -- 1867, 1868, and 1869. Consult these volumes for the exact pages that you need. For example, the Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations is located in 1867 U.N.T.S. 14.

For more details see on Bluebook Citation, see WTO and GATT Research by Jeanne Rehberg.

Sources for the text of GATT and WTO Agreements

United Nations Treaty Series (U.N.T.S.), see above citations. Also available on the UN Treaty Collection database.

Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round (Geneva: GATT, 1993).

Basic Instruments and Selected Documents (BISD) (Geneva: GATT, 1953-).

Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: The Legal Texts (Geneva: GATT, 1994).

33 International Legal Materials 1 (1994).

WTO Legal Texts (WTO web site) -- provides the legal texts and other major documents. Pre-WTO legal texts are also available.

Worldtradelaw.net -- provides the legal texts and other documents.

LexisNexis -- select "International Trade" from the Source Directory.

Westlaw -- select "International/Worldwide Materials" from the Directory, then click on "Multi-National Materials" and then click on "Legislation."

 

Implementing Legislation

Uruguay Round Agreements Act , Pub. L. 103-465, 108 Stat. 4809 (1994), 19 USC 3501. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see "Short Title" note in the code.

Originally prepared by Ellen Schaffer. Completely revised and expanded by Marci Hoffman, International and Foreign Law Librarian, UC Berkeley Law Library. Revised August 2006.
email: webmaster-library@law.berkeley.edu Last modified on August 07, 2005.