Westlaw Database Directory

Summary
Database Name: Uruguay Round General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Database Identifier: GATT

Coverage
Begins with April 1994

Content Highlights:
Final text of the GATT Uruguay Round Agreements, including the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) signed on April 15, 1994. The database also includes WTO panel decisions, the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, the statement of administrative action issued by the president, the GATT Uruguay Round Agreements Report on Environmental Issues, ministerial decisions and declarations, and additional administrative statements on the Uruguay Round agreements.

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Contents
The GATT database contains the final text of the GATT Uruguay Round Agreements including the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization signed on April 15, 1994. The Uruguary Round Agreements Acts, P.L. 103-465 (H.R. 5110) signed December 8, 1994 and the Statement of Administrative Action issued by the President that summarized and describes significant administrative action proposed to implement the Uruguay Round agreements are also in this database. Other documents include the GATT Uruguay Round Agreements Report on Environmental Issues, Ministerial Decisions and Declarations, and additional Administrative Statements on the Uruguay Round agreements. A document is an act, report, agreement, section of an agreement, statement.

Derivation
This database includes documents released for publication by the United States Congress, the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the Executive office of the President.

Searching and Fields
In this database you may choose the Terms and Connectors search method or the Natural Language search method.

With a Terms and Connectors search, you enter a query, which consists of key terms from your issue and connectors specifying the relationship between those terms. With Natural Language, you can retrieve documents by simply describing your issue in plain English.

For more information on using one of these search methods, see online Help.

Tip: To retrieve Public Law 103-465 approving and implementing the trade agreements, run a search using the CITATION field, e.g., ci(103-465).

Tip: To retrieve the Final Act, run a search using the PRELIM field, e.g., pr(final).

Tip: To retrieve the Statement of Administrative Action, run a search using the PRELIM field, e.g., pr(action).

Tip: To retrieve additional GATT related documents, run one of the following TITLE field searches:

Use ti(decisions) for the Ministerial Decisions and declarations document.

Use ti(environment) for the GATT Report on the Environment.

Use ti(statement) for additional statement issued from the Executive

Office of the President.

The abbreviations for the fields in this database are:

CITATION

Unique references for citing to specific documents.

PRELIM GATT

document headings.

SOURCE

United States Congress or Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

TITLE

Subject matter of the GATT and names of parties to a decision.

CAPTION

Public Law number, bill number, date of approval, and topical heading.

SUMMARY

Summary of the Public Law.

YEAR

Date of GATT document's signature, release of approval date in a Public Law, or date of decision.

TEXT

Text of the document.

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