摘要:When the Uruguay Round Agreements of the GATT entered into force in January 1995, a new era dawned in agricultural trade regulation at the international level. Agriculture, for the first time, was brought fully into the multilateral regulatory system for trade. Facilitated by these agreements and a booming world economy, agricultural trade has increased rapidly in recent years raising the stakes for the World Trade Organization—as the successor to GATT—and to other international organizations working in this area.