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General Council	WT/GC/
Accession to WTO	WT/ACC/
Agriculture	G/AG/
Aid for Trade	WT/AFT/ ; WT/COMTD/AFT/
Anti-dumping	G/ADP/
Balance-of-Payments	WT/BOP/
Budget, Finance and Administration	WT/BFA/
Customs Valuation	G/VAL/
Dispute Settlement	WT/AB/ ; WT/DS/ ; WT/DSB/
Government Procurement	GPA/ ; WT/WGTGP/
Import Licensing	G/LIC/
Informal Working Group on Trade and Gender	INF/TGE/
Information Technology Products	G/IT/
Intellectual Property	IP/
Joint initiatives	INF/
Market Access	G/MA/ ; TN/MA/
Ministerial Meetings	WT/MIN/
Preparatory Committee for the World Trade Organization	PC/
Preshipment Inspection	G/PSI/
Regional Trade	WT/REG/ ; WT/REGnumber
Rules of Origin	G/RO/
Safeguards	G/SG/
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures	G/SPS/
State Trading	G/STR/
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures	G/SCM/
Technical Barriers to Trade	G/TBT/
Technical Co-operation	WT/TC/
Textiles	G/TMB/
Trade and Competition Policy	WT/WGTCP/
Trade and Development	WT/COMTD/
Trade and Environment	WT/CTE/
Trade and Finance	G/TRIMS/ ; WT/AFT/ ; WT/TF/ ; WT/WGTDF/ ; WT/WGTI/
Trade and Transfer of Technology	WT/WGTTT/
Trade Facilitation	G/TFA ; WT/PCTF/
Trade in Bovine Meat	IMA/
Trade in Civil Aircraft	TCA/
Trade in Dairy Products	IDA/
Trade in Goods	G/C/
Trade in Services	S/
Trade Negotiations	TN/
Trade Policy	WT/TPR/
Trade-Related Investment Measures	G/TRIMS/
WTO Secretariat - Administrative	JOB/ ; OFFICE(YEAR)/ ; WT/DAILYB/ ; WT/INF/ ; WT/LET/ ; WTO/AIR/


	WTO DOCUMENTS All WTO official documents bear a unique document number constructed as follows: 94-1234 94 = 1994 ; 1234 = a sequential document number Examples: 95-3452 (1995) 00-0965 (2000) 11-1342 (2011) Do not confuse the document number with the document symbol! The document symbol is made up of letters and numbers which, when taken together, provide a broad indication of subject content. The document number is always a sequential number. GATT DOCUMENTS GATT official documents were attributed a document number from 1983 - 1994 only.


	Search by full title, phrases or keywords in the title. Searching is not case sensitive. You can also use Boolean operators when searching – see the help file on full text searching for more details. Full title Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Survey on the Electronic Facilities Available in National Enquiry Points - Supplement Phrases "radio equipment and systems" – enclose in " " to retrieve the exact phrase otherwise titles containing all the words in any order will be retrieved Keywords frequency and national : the title must contain both search criteria ventilation and buildings not Finland : the title must not contain Finland cooling or lighting : the title must contain either cooling or lighting radio near short : the title must contain "radio" within 5 words of "short"

This function enables you to search for words, expressions or exact phrases within the actual text of a document. Boolean and proximity search operators, phrase searching, nesting and stemming can be used in this search field.

Boolean Operators

OR		Returns documents containing either of the terms
		Example: coffee OR cacao

AND		Returns documents containing both terms
		Example: beer AND wine

NOT		Excludes documents containing the term following NOT
		Example: copper NOT steel

Proximity Search Operators

The following proximity search operators can be used with words, exact phrases and nested Boolean queries.

NEARN		Returns documents in which the first term is within N words of the second term. By default N is 5 words.
		Example: Smuggling NEAR3 tobacco
		This case searches for the term smuggling within 3 words of tobacco.

DNEARN		Returns documents in which the first term is within N words of the second term and in the indicated order.
		Example: cinnamon DNEAR4 cocoa
		This case searches for the term cinnamon within 4 words of cocoa and in the specified order.

BEFORE		Returns documents in which the first term comes before the second term
		Example: railway BEFORE locomotives

AFTER		Returns documents in which the first term comes after the second term
		Example: form AFTER customs

Wildcards

The following wildcards are available to replace one or many characters within a word. The asterisk (*) is used to replace zero, one or more characters. The question mark (?) is used to replace one character.

Examples:
labo?r
will retrieve documents containing the term labour or labor

engin*
will retrieve documents containing the terms engine or engineering or engineered, etc.

Stemming

Stemming is automatically applied by the search engine and allows for the retrieval of words that have a common stem.

Examples:
Fish
will retrieve fish, fisher, fishing etc. It is not necessary to write "fish" OR "fisher" OR "fishing".

Phrases

Exact phrases can be searched for by using quotation marks (" ").

Examples:
"tariff schedules"
will retrieve documents containing the exact term tariff schedules

Note: The application will automatically search for all documents containing the terms tariff and schedules if no quotation marks are used.

OR		Returns documents containing either of the terms
		Example: coffee OR cacao

AND		Returns documents containing both terms
		Example: beer AND wine

NOT		Excludes documents containing the term following NOT
		Example: copper NOT steel

Proximity Search Operators

The following proximity search operators can be used with words, exact phrases and nested Boolean queries.

NEARN		Returns documents in which the first term is within N words of the second term. By default N is 5 words.
		Example: Smuggling NEAR3 tobacco
		This case searches for the term smuggling within 3 words of tobacco.

DNEARN		Returns documents in which the first term is within N words of the second term and in the indicated order.
		Example: cinnamon DNEAR4 cocoa
		This case searches for the term cinnamon within 4 words of cocoa and in the specified order.

BEFORE		Returns documents in which the first term comes before the second term
		Example: railway BEFORE locomotives

AFTER		Returns documents in which the first term comes after the second term
		Example: form AFTER customs

OR		Returns documents containing either of the terms
		Example: coffee OR cacao

AND		Returns documents containing both terms
		Example: beer AND wine

NOT		Excludes documents containing the term following NOT
		Example: copper NOT steel

Proximity Search Operators

The following proximity search operators can be used with words, exact phrases and nested Boolean queries.

NEARN		Returns documents in which the first term is within N words of the second term. By default N is 5 words.
		Example: Smuggling NEAR3 tobacco
		This case searches for the term smuggling within 3 words of tobacco.

DNEARN		Returns documents in which the first term is within N words of the second term and in the indicated order.
		Example: cinnamon DNEAR4 cocoa
		This case searches for the term cinnamon within 4 words of cocoa and in the specified order.

BEFORE		Returns documents in which the first term comes before the second term
		Example: railway BEFORE locomotives

AFTER		Returns documents in which the first term comes after the second term
		Example: form AFTER customs


	WTO DOCUMENTS Documents can be either public (available to the general public) or restricted (reserved for the use of WTO Members and some Observers). Most restricted documents are derestricted and released to the public by means of a regular process of derestriction Documents circulated after 15 May 2002 Revised procedures for the circulation and derestriction of WTO documents (WT/L/452) were adopted by the General Council on 14 May 2002 and apply to all WTO documents circulated after 15 May 2002 Documents circulated before 15 May 2002 Procedures for the circulation and derestriction of WTO documents (WT/L/160/Rev.1) were adopted by the General Council on 18 July 1996 and applied retroactively to all WTO documents circulated after the date of entry into force of the WTO Agreement and before 15 May 2002 GATT DOCUMENTS The General Council of the World Trade Organization (the successor organization to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) decided on 15 May 2006 to derestrict unconditionally the GATT document collection (WT/L/647)

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