In 1994, over 100 countries became signatories to the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in a dramatic increase in trade liberalization.

The Uruguay Round.

The Uruguay Round began in 1986.

The Uruguay Round was also the first set of multilateral trade negotiations in which developing countries had played an active role.

The Agreement on Agriculture of the Uruguay Round continues to be the most substantial trade liberalization agreement in agricultural products in the history of trade negotiations.

In 1993, Namibia became a signatory of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) signatory, and the Minister of Trade and Industry represented Namibia at the Marrakech signing of the Uruguay Round Agreement in April 1994.

For China and other WTO members, however, textile quotas under the MFA expired at the end of 2004 as agreed in the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.

** The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) talks reach a successful conclusion after 7 years.

In 1994 NAFTA came into force and the 1988 – 1994 Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations were completed.

Iceland's relatively liberal trading policy has been strengthened by accession to the European Economic Area in 1993 and by the Uruguay Round, which also brought significantly improved market access for Iceland's exports, particularly seafood products.

The implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) and the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) have resulted in reforms in the agricultural sector of the economy.

Australia also is active in meetings of the Commonwealth Heads of Government and the Pacific Islands Forum, and has been a leader in the Cairns Group — countries pressing for agricultural trade reform in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) negotiations — and in the APEC forum.

In 1996, the film's U. S. copyright protection was restored by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act and credited to StudioCanal Image U. K. Ltd.

In March 2000, the Appellate Body of the WTO found that the FSC provisions constituted a prohibited export subsidy under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) Uruguay Round code on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures ( SCM ).

However, in 1995, during the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations established the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) as the replacement body for GATT.

The General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ) is a treaty of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) that entered into force in January 1995 as a result of the Uruguay Round negotiations.

The copyright in the U. S. on foreign publications that had failed to comply with the ( former ) formality requirements of the U. S. was generally restored when the copyright restorations of the Uruguay Round Agreement Act ( URAA ) became effective in the U. S. on January 1, 1996.

The URAA was a result of the TRIPS agreement, part of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) negotiations.

During this time she worked on the Uruguay Round talks for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ).

He helped win crucial Republican votes to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) and the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ).

"... developing countries have remained steadfast in their demand that developed countries honour Uruguay Round commitments before moving forward full force with new trade negotiations.

* Uruguay Round ( Of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade )

The Cairns Group successfully forced agriculture onto the agenda of the Uruguay Round.

The Uruguay Round was the 8th round of multilateral trade negotiations ( MTN ) conducted within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), spanning from 1986 to 1994 and embracing 123 countries as " contracting parties ".

Commercial ties between Uruguay and the United States have expanded substantially in recent years, with the countries signing a bilateral investment treaty in 2004 and a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement in January 2007.

It is worth noting that one of the factors behind the 1992 reforms was the need to reach agreement with the EU's external trade partners at the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) talks with regards to agricultural subsidies.

The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union has often been accused of dumping though significant reforms were made as part of the Agreement on Agriculture at the Uruguay round of GATT negotiations in 1992 and in subsequent incremental reforms, notably the Luxembourg Agreement in 2003.

The round was launched in Punta del Este, Uruguay in September 1986, followed by negotiations in Geneva, Brussels, Washington, D. C., and Tokyo, with the 20 agreements finally being signed in Marrakesh — the Marrakesh Agreement — in April 1994.

Many NTBs are governed by WTO agreements, which originated in the Uruguay Round ( the TBT Agreement, SPS Measures Agreement, the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing ), as well as GATT articles.

Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, a stop motion film by Tournier Animation based on Alexander Selkirk's life was premiered simultaneously in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on 2 February 2012.

Cuba was formerly excluded from participation in the Organization of American States under a decision adopted by the Eighth Meeting of Consultation in Punta del Este, Uruguay, on 21 January 1962.

In Argentina and Uruguay the Spanish standard is based on the local dialects of Buenos Aires and Montevideo ( Rioplatense Spanish ).

However, by the time of the Uruguay round, many countries considered the exception of agriculture to be sufficiently glaring that they refused to sign a new deal without some movement on agricultural products.

Small Italian-speaking minorities on the continent are also found in Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil.

In the follow-on meetings to the December 1994 Summit of the Americas, Jamaica — together with Uruguay -- was given the responsibility of coordinating discussions on invigorating society.

* 1982 – The Argentine base ( Corbeta Uruguay ) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.

The Jules Rimet Trophy was taken to Uruguay for the first FIFA World Cup aboard the Conte Verde, which set sail from Villefranche-sur-Mer, just south of Nice, on 21 June 1930.

* Uruguay recognized Lebanon's independence on November 22, 1943.

The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States was a treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933, during the Seventh International Conference of American States.

A State Department document made available by the National Security Archive on 10 April 2010 reveals that a démarche protesting Pinochet's Operation: Condor assassination program was proposed and sent on 23 August 1976 to US diplomatic missions in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to be delivered to their host governments but later rescinded on 16 September 1976 by Henry Kissinger, following concerns raised by US ambassadors assigned there of both personal safety and a likely diplomatic contretemps.

A sanitary convention between the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay was concluded in Montevideo on 21 April 1914.

Argentina maintained a naval station, Corbeta Uruguay on Thule Island in the South Sandwich Islands, from 1976 until 1982 when it was closed by the Royal Navy.

On the left, Santana do Livramento ( Brazil ); on the right, Rivera ( Uruguay ).

The first permanent settlement on the territory of present-day Uruguay was founded by the Spanish in 1624 at Soriano on the Río Negro.

In 1843, an Argentinian army overran Uruguay on Oribe's behalf but failed to take the capital.

The construction of a controversial pulp paper mill in 2007, on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River, caused protests in Argentina over fears that it would pollute the environment and lead to diplomatic tensions between the two countries.