Tariff Negotiations and Renegotiations under the GATT and the WTO

Anwarul Hoda is Chair Professor of the Trade Policy and WTO Research Programme at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). He is a former Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. His main publications as author are Developing Countries in the International Trading System (1987) and Tariff Negotiations and Renegotiations under the GATT and the WTO (Cambridge, 2001), and as editor, The WTO Agreement and Indian Agriculture (2002).

• Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Legal framework for tariff negotiations and renegotiations under GATT 1994; 2. Tariff conferences and rounds of multilateral trade negotiations; 3. Bilateral and plurilateral negotiations; 4. Practice and procedures in renegotiations; 5. Schedules of tariff concessions: rectification, modification and consolidation; 6. Conclusions; Appendix A. Key provisions in the Havana Charter and GATT 1994 and related decision and understandings; Appendix B. Decisions and declarations commencing rounds of multilateral trade negotiations; Appendix C. Protocols embodying the results of multilateral trade negotiations; Appendix D. Decisions on procedures on renegotiations, rectifications, modifications and related subjects; Bibliography.