| | World Trade Organization -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an (An international alliance involving many different countries) international organization which oversees a large number of agreements defining the "rules of trade" between its member states (WTO, 2004a). |
 | | In the late (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s, the WTO became a major target of protests by the (Click link for more info and facts about anti-globalization movement) anti-globalization movement. |
 | | The International Trade Organization charter was agreed at the (An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security) UN Conference on Trade and Employment in Havana in March 1948, but was blocked by the (Click link for more info and facts about U.S. Senate) U.S. Senate (WTO, 2004b). |
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