INTRODUCTION 1 Uruguay Round 3 World Trade Organization, WTO 4 World economy from WTO 5 Future of international economic policy in Colombia 6 Rights and obligations in the WTO Colombia Rights 7 Conclusions 9

INTRODUCTION

This paper seeks to review the significance is of the signing of the World Trade Organization, WTO, international economic policy in Colombia. For the effect Salient results obtained at the Uruguay Round of the GATT-product of which arose the WTO, "a brief presentation of the structure of this body and an assessment of their importance worldwide, we study its influence on country's trade policy for the last five years of the twentieth century, summarizes the rights and obligations of the nation and draws some conclusions. (M N Cardwell, 2003)
As noted, what is sought is to open the borders of the countries from eliminating barriers to foreign direct investment, allowing free movement of capital and ensuring the expanding market for multinationals, which plays a key role labour market deregulation to ensure very cheap labour. This in turn implies a fiscal adjustment, a gradual dismantling of the state and its companies, the legalization of private property rights and lower social spending directed only to those most marginalized (Blackwell, 2004).
Today's proposal globalization has its highest expression on the momentum of the so-called free trade agreements between nations, strongly promoted by the WTO.

Uruguay Round

The launch of the Eighth Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, 20 September 1986, was the product of many events that occurred in the early eighties, which led to the international economy and rising protectionist declining dynamism . (Schott, 1994)

Within the thematic content of the Round, we can distinguish four areas: (WTO, 1999)

1. Access to markets, covering tariff reductions and the elimination of non-tariff measures that weigh on tropical products, agriculture, products obtained from the