Senegal And Switzerland Use Of Wto

1330 Words6 Pages
Both Switzerland and Senegal are members of the World Trade Organization. Senegal joined January 1, 1995. Switzerland joined in July of the same year. The organization is meant to unite all member countries in order to maintain the market. The World Trade Organization wants to have trade exist freely. However, they set rules and regulations on how it exists and operates. The biggest differences between Senegal and Switzerland are different economies, different exports and different needs from the World Trade Organization. In similarities, they both must follow the same rules and regulations. They are also both given the same opportunities to trade their goods. Both countries rely heavily on trade, so this is essential to them both. The fact that Switzerland and Senegal are both members of the World Trade organization implies that they both must follow the same rules and regulations as dictated by the World Trade Organization. However, due to the fact that they are both so different, the World Trade Organization has given Senegal extra support to ensure that they are able to operate in the same market. Switzerland does not need extensions or extra support. The WTO has set out the following guidelines for countries like Senegal: extra time for developing countries to fulfil their commitments (in many of the WTO agreements), provisions designed to increase developing countries’ trading opportunities through greater market access (e.g. in textiles, services, technical barriers to trade), provisions requiring WTO members to safeguard the interests of developing countries when adopting some domestic or international measures (e.g. in anti-dumping, safeguards, technical barriers to trade), provisions for various means of helping developing countries (e.g. to deal with commitments on animal and plant health standards, technical standards, and in strengthening
Open Document