Business English 2
Global Financial Institutions
Some of the information for your presentations is in the article “The Bretton Woods Trio,” pages 28-36. You
will also have to do independent research on your topic.
Group 6 – GATT – General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and Intellectual Property Rights
1. What was the purpose of the GATT?
2. The book says that the final round of talks was in March 1994 in Marrakech, Morocco. There have
been two further rounds of talks and negotiations since then – where were they held? What are
they called?
3. Does GATT still exist? What is its function or purpose now?
4. Under what section of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is intellectual property rights governed?
5. When was intellectual property rights included as part of the mandate of the WTO?
6. Why are intellectual property rights considered to be a trade issue?
7. What are the types of intellectual property that are covered by the WTO?