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See
also:
> Press
release: WTO makes public all official GATT documents
> General
Council Meeting of 15 May 2006 (part VI)
> GATT bilateral negotiating material by Round
> GATT bilateral negotiating material by Contracting Party
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Browse by symbol back to top
GATT documents are identified by a “symbol” or code which is based on either the
issuing body or subject matter of the document. Unlike WTO document symbols,
GATT symbols are not hierarchical.
Documents for which no link appears are not available electronically
Browse by date back to top
* Documents for which no date could be identified have been given a
nominal date of 1/1/1940
Browse all documents back to top
To do this you need to download the catalogue file
part 1
(5MB),
part 2
(5MB),
part 3
(5MB),
part 4
(5MB),
part 5
(5MB). You can then use the local search function of your browser to
search within titles/symbols by typing Ctrl-F and entering your search
term.
Other sources of GATT documents back to top
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A subset of GATT documents (including those from the Uruguay Round — about 4000 documents) is available in Documents Online. Click “Advanced search”, type “UR” into the collection field, then refine your search with other criteria if desired.
> help with downloading these documents
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Document
formats |
Documents exist in varying formats, depending on age and source and
method of scanning.
Paper versions of all official GATT documents can be consulted in the WTO archives, which are located on the 4th floor of the WTO Library.
PDF scan — image only
What you see on
your screen or printout is simply a scanned image of the paper
document.
PDF scan with OCR
In addition to the scanned image this type of PDF
file contains text which is searchable. This is a useful addition,
but the text recognition is imperfect, so what you see and print is
still the scanned image of the paper document.
HTML — these are basic web page conversions in which most formatting
is lost.
RFT/DCA and WPF — these are old word processor formats. You will need a
converter to open them in Word. > More info
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