This is a presentation on a brief introduction to the World Trade Organization: its functions, the area of its operation, documents and resources used and developed by this organization, products and services it provides along with a very useful data archive. (2019)

1. World Trade Organization (WTO)
Shawkat Ara Begum

2. Brief Description of WTO
• An organization for trade opening. WTO is run by its member
governments. All major decisions are made by the membership
as a whole, either by ministers (meet at least once every two
years) or by their ambassadors or delegates (meet regularly in
Geneva).
• A forum for governments to negotiate trade agreements, to
settle trade disputes. It operates a system of trade rules.
❑ Trade negotiations
❑ Implementation and monitoring
❑ Dispute settlement
❑ Building trade capacity
❑ Outreach

3. Trade Topics
Trade Topics Trade Topics
Goods Doha Development Agenda
Services Building Trade Capacity
Intellectual Property Trade Monitoring
Regional Trade
Agreements
More topics
Dispute Settlements

4. Documents and resources
Official
Documents
Online Docs
Meeting
Docs
Latest Docs
Depositing
Legal
Instruments
GATT Docs
Publications
Key
Publications
By Title
By Category
Online
Bookshop
WTO
Bookshop
Library
Statistics
WTO Data
Portal
Merchandise
Trade
Trade in
Services
Tariffs
NTMs
GVCs
Other Stat
Economic
Research
World Trade
Reports
Working
Papers
Chairs
Program
Trade
Dialogue
Lectures
Multimedia
Audio
Video
Photos
Maps
Other
Resources
Glossary
E-learning
D-Learning
Linguistics
i-library

5. Trade and tariff data
The WTO provides
quantitative information
in relation to economic
and trade policy issues.
Its data-bases and
publications provide
access to data on trade
flows, tariffs, non-tariff
measures (NTMs) and
trade in value added.

6. Tools and Data
• A wide range of WTO statisticalindicators on international
trade, tariffs, non-tariff measures and other indicators.
Bulk download of trade data
This facility allows users to access the main trade statisticsdatasets
International Trade and Market Access Data interactive tool
Tariff Download Facility
Simpler, standardized tariff statistics
Tariff Analysis Online
RTA database: By Country and By Category

7. Tools and Data (contd.)
PTA database
I-TIP database
A single entry point for WTO information on trade policy measures covering both
tariff and non-tariff measures affecting trade in goods and information on trade in
services
Environmental Database
environment-related notifications submittedby WTO members, environmental
measures and policies mentioned in the Trade Policy Reviews of WTO members.
TFA Database
a variety of statisticalanalyses of the TFA notifications received and on the
progress towards full implementation of the TFA. It contains Member profiles
pages with an in-depth analysis per country amongstother features.
Trade and tariff maps
A wide range of statistical indicators are available (e.g. trade per capita, exports,
average tariff).

8. Evolution of trade under the WTO

9. RTAs in Force

10. Some Figures on RTAS notified to GATT/WTO
and in force
Accessions New RTAs Grand total
GATT Art. XXIV (FTA) 3 240 243
GATT Art. XXIV (CU) 10 11 21
Enabling Clause 5 45 50
GATS Art. V 7 151 158
Grand total 25 447 472
Enabling clause GATS Art. V GATT Art. XXIV Grand total
Customs Union 7 11 18
Customs Union - Accession 2 10 12
Economic Integration Agreement 151 151
Economic Integration Agreement -
Accession 7 7
Free Trade Agreement 16 240 256
Free Trade Agreement - Accession 1 3 4
Partial Scope Agreement 22 22
Partial Scope Agreement - Accession 2 2
WTO statistics on RTAs are based on notification requirements rather than on physical number of RTAs.
Thus, for an RTA that includes both goods and services, we count two notifications (one for goods and
the other services), even though it is physically one RTA. Nevertheless, figures on the physical number
of RTAs (counting goods and services together), are provided in the last table below.
The following table shows all RTAs in force, sorted by Notification:
The following table shows all RTAs in force, sorted by Type of Agreement:
Some Figures on Regional Trade Agreements notified to the GATT/WTO and in force

11. RTAs by Country- Bangladesh Profile
Background Info
Available
List of Notified RTAs in
Force
List of RTAs For Which
Any Announce Has
Been Made
Trade Policies APTA BIMSTEC
Tariff Policies APTA-Accession China
Trade Reviews GSTP
Preferential Tariff
Analysis
PTN
SAFTA
SAFTA-Accession of
Afghanistan
SAPTA

12. Bangladesh Profile