英語考試輔導(dǎo):金融世界第二十二講

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在這一講中我們要繼續(xù)向您介紹 World Trade Organisation, 世界貿(mào)易組織。
    在以前的節(jié)目中我們?yōu)槟榻B過世界貿(mào)易組織的前身是 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 關(guān)稅及貿(mào)易總協(xié)定,英文簡(jiǎn)稱是 GATT。它是在一九四七年由二十三個(gè)國家在日內(nèi)瓦簽簽訂的,后來發(fā)展到有一百多個(gè)成員國。
    澳洲廣播電臺(tái)金融節(jié)目主持人巴里克拉克介紹了關(guān)貿(mào)總協(xié)成立后的幾個(gè)回合談判:
    There were seven GATT negotiating rounds held throughout the 1950s, '60s and '70s, which helped free up international trade. But because of a revival of protectionism in the 1970s and '80s, problems began to develop.
    The eighth and final GATT round, the Uruguay Round, took place against this background and in the more difficult international economic environment of the 1980s and '90s.
    Many of the problems encountered during the Uruguay Round stemmed from an ambitious agenda, which sought to extend the GATT disciplines to areas such as trade in agricultural products and trade in services and intellectual property.
    下面我們分段聽一遍巴里克拉克的這段談話和中文翻譯:(英文略)
    關(guān)貿(mào)總協(xié)在一九五十年代及六十和七十年代一共進(jìn)行了七個(gè)回合的談判。這些談判有助于國際貿(mào)易的自由化。但是由于七十年代和八十年代保護(hù)主義重新抬頭,問題開始出現(xiàn)。關(guān)貿(mào)總協(xié)的第八回合也是最后一個(gè)回合的談判,即烏拉圭回合談判,就是在這一背景下在一九八十年代和九十年代更為困難的國際經(jīng)濟(jì)環(huán)境中進(jìn)行的。烏拉圭回合談判中的許多問題都來自于雄心勃勃的談判議程。這項(xiàng)議程要把關(guān)貿(mào)總協(xié)的規(guī)則延伸到農(nóng)產(chǎn)品貿(mào)易、服務(wù)業(yè)及知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)的貿(mào)易領(lǐng)域中。
    下面我們把巴里克拉克的這段談話的原文連起來聽一遍。(略)
    澳大利亞莫納什大學(xué)亞太經(jīng)合組織研究中心主任艾倫奧克斯利對(duì)烏拉圭回合貿(mào)易談判作了進(jìn)一步的介紹。他說:
    It greatly expanded the scope of the GATT. In the past, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade had focused exclusively on world trade in goods. The Uruguay Round greatly extended the ambit of the coverage to include a new set of issues, services, and it brought intellectual property in.
    A third, technical change is that it significantly expanded the completeness of the coverage of the GATT trade rules. There were new disciplines introduced on subsidies. So in fact by the time that round had finished, there was a more complete application of the principles of trade in goods which the original GATT had been designed to cover.