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The ground Trade Organization Where Its Been and Wheres Its Going?Since the start of trading in the United States and around the world in that respect has always been a need for rules and regulations. The GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) was the one for the past century that dealt with issues that would arise they wrote rules on things that were acceptable and not acceptable in the allot arena. Out of the GATT came the World Trade Organization (WTO) that was designed to take care of more(prenominal) issues than GATT. Although the WTO has only been around for almost a decade it has come down the stairs criticism from almost all arenas. They have had issues brought to their table that have been hard decisions and now have issues they must deal with that could affect the way free trade is in the future. Countries have battled amongst each other as how to solve a problem such as The Beef Hormone Case, The Shrimp Turtle baptismal font and the Caribbean Banana Case. These were case that will be discussed later, but have set a kind of foundation for the WTO as to where they will be headed in the future. tillage has become a hot issue in the international market and the WTO is still trying to find ways to accommodate the developed countries and develop advertise growth in the developing nations. The World Trade Organization is also stepping into new territory and the future is no exception.The World Trade OrganizationThe World Trade Organization was developed in 1995 out of what was known as the Uruguay Round. Although GATT set rules they mostly dealt with issues just involving simple trade of goods and the distribution of tariffs. The WTO has a more broad job than the GATT it oversees multilateral agreements relating not just to good, but... ... the job that they were made to do under the GATT regulations. The future will tell a lot closely the WTO and free trade because so many things are brought to the table that eventually the Wo rld Trade Organization is going to need some form of attend to to make adequate decisions for the world.BIBLIOGRAPHYDiao, Xinshen, Terry Roe and Agapi Somwaru. Developing Country Interests in Agricultural Reforms Under the World Trade Organization. American Journal of Economics v.84, n3 (August 2002) 782-90Irwin, Douglas. put down Trade Under Fire. Princeton and Oxford Princeton University Press, 2002.Josling, Tim. Key Issues in the World Trade Organization Negotiations on Agriculture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics v.85, n3 (August 2003) 663-667Working Group on the WTO/MAI. A Citizens Guide to the World Trade Organization (July 1999) 1-28