www.wto.org

The World Trade Organisation is the global international organisation dealing with trade between nations. Its key functions are to administer the WTO trade agreements, to provide a forum for trade negotiations, to handle trade disputes, to monitor national trade policies, to provide technical assistance and training for developing countries and to cooperate with other international organisations. The World Trade Organisation and its trade capacity building subsidiary organs play a major role in the global trading system and, in particular, in the implementation of the Doha Development Agenda which launched a new WTO Trade Round in November 2001.