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{{short description|April 1994 international free trade agreement signed in Marrakech, Morocco}}
{{other uses|Marrakesh Treaty (disambiguation)}}
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The '''Marrakesh Agreement''', manifested by the '''Marrakesh Declaration''', was an agreement signed in [[Marrakesh]], Morocco, by 123 nations on 15 April 1994, marking the culmination of the 8-year-long [[Uruguay Round]] and establishing the [[World Trade Organization]], which officially came into being on 1 January 1995.<ref>[http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/marrakesh_decl_e.htm Marrakesh Declaration of 15 April 1994] at World Trade Organization</ref>

The agreement developed out of the [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] (GATT), supplemented by a number of other agreements on issues including [[General Agreement on Trade in Services|trade in services]], [[Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures|sanitary and phytosanitary measures]], [[Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights|trade-related aspects of intellectual property]] and [[Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade|technical barriers to trade]].  It also established a new, more efficient and legally binding means of [[Dispute Settlement Body|dispute resolution]].  The various agreements which make up the Marrakesh Agreement combine as an indivisible whole; no entity can be party to any one agreement without being party to them all.

== See also ==
* The UN [[Global Compact for Migration]] treaty, developed in Marrakesh and New York conferences in 2018

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130531011144/http://www.wtopunjab.gov.pk/legal_framework.html An unofficial chart of the Marrakech Agreement] (at WTO Cell, Government of the Punjab)

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