www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/04-wto_e.htm
Concluded: 15 April 1994
In force: 1 January 1995
Article I Establishment of the Organization 510
Article II Scope of the WTO 510
Article III Functions of the WTO 510
Article IV Structure of the WTO 511
Article V Relations with Other Organizations 512
Article VI The Secretariat 512
Article VII Budget and Contributions 513
Article VIII Status of the WTO 513
Article IX Decision-Making 513
Article X Amendments 515
Article XI Original Membership 516
Article XII Accession 516
Article XIII Non-Application of Multilateral Trade Agreements
between Particular Members 517
Article XIV Acceptance, Entry into Force and Deposit 517
Article XV Withdrawal 518
Article XVI Miscellaneous Provisions 518
The Parties to this Agreement,
Recognizing that their relations in the field of trade and economic endeavour should be conducted with a view to raising standards of living, ensuring full employment and a large and steadily growing volume of real income and effective demand, and expanding the production of and trade in goods and services, while allowing for the optimal use of the world's resources in accordance with the objective of sustainable development, seeking both to protect and preserve the environment and to enhance the means for doing so in a manner consistent with their respective needs and concerns at different levels of economic development,
Recognizing further that there is need for positive efforts designed to ensure that developing countries, and especially the least developed among them, secure a share in the growth in international trade commensurate with the needs of their economic development,
Being desirous of contributing to these objectives by entering into reciprocal and mutually advantageous arrangements directed to the substantial reduction of tariffs and other barriers to trade and to the elimination of discriminatory treatment in international trade relations,
Resolved, therefore, to develop an integrated, more viable and durable multilateral trading system encompassing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the results of past trade liberalization efforts, and all of the results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations,
Determined to preserve the basic principles and to further the objectives underlying this multilateral trading system,
Agree as follows:
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