The relevant provisions for accession to the WTO, mainly entrenched in Article XII of the Marrakech Agreement, do not provide an adequate legal basis for the process. Its inherent flaws have resulted in demands on acceding countries that are invariably onerous and bear little or no relation to their size, significance or development status.
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The relevant provisions for accession to the WTO, mainly entrenched in Article XII of the Marrakech Agreement, do not provide an adequate legal basis for the process. Its inherent flaws have resulted in demands on acceding countries that are invariably onerous and bear little or no relation to their size, significance or development status.
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