Azerbaijana WTO Accession Process: Non Agricultural Export Subsidies Aspects of Negotiations
Azerbaijan has started to the unilateral and all-round negotiations with WTO namely from the time it has appealed for accession to this organization, i.e. 1997. The WTO membership of Azerbaijan is directly related to the improvement of legislation. Presently there are laws in the fields of regulation, intellectual property and investments that don’t meet any international standards and WTO very requirements. The WTO membership will enable the country to forecast the country’s trade policy, the level of transparency will be increased, the international trade partners’ number will be increased and the economic disputes will be settled more effectively. It is to be noted that the main moments discussed within the agricultural agreement make important the determination of subsides upper limit and tariffs. Another important point is related to the export subsidies. For this purpose, the economic importance and the types of export subsidies, as well as the issues of export subsidy in WTO agreements were analyzed in the article and have been put forward the recommendations about export subsidies for Azerbaijan.
