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Q35 (IAS/1997) International Relations & Global Affairs › International Organisations & Groupings › International trade regimes Answer Verified

One of the important agreements reached in the 1996 Ministerial Conference of WTO relates to

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The major agreement negotiated and launched at the WTO’s first Ministerial Conference in Singapore (December 1996) was the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), which aimed to liberalize and eliminate tariffs on a wide range of information technology products, thereby promoting commerce in IT goods [1]. The Singapore Ministerial also produced the Singapore Ministerial Declaration and set a work programme addressing several “new issues,” but the ITA stands out as a concrete, multilateral outcome directly linked to trade in information technology products from that conference [2]. Thus the option referring to commerce in information technology correctly identifies the important agreement associated with the 1996 Ministerial.

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  1. [1] https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/327061468002636383/pdf/337440Development0outreach0July2003.pdf
  2. [2] https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/focus_e/focus15_e.pdf
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