The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization designed (1)….…and liberalize international trade. The WTO came into being (2)…..…January 1,1995 and is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), (3)………was created in 1947 and continued to operate for almost five decades as a defactor international organization. The World Trade Organization deals with the (4)…..…of trade between nations at a near-global (5)…..…it is (6)…..…for negotiating and implementing new trade agreements and is in charge of policing member countries’s adherence to all the WTO agreements, signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their (7)…..…Most of the WTO’s current work (8)…..… from the 1986-1994 negotiations called Uruguay Round, and earlier negotiations under the GATT. The organization is currently the host to new negotiations, under the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) launched in 2001. The WTO is (9)…..…by a Minister Conference, which meets every two years, a General Council, which implements the conference’s policy decisions and is responsible for day-to-day administration, and a director-general, who is (10)…..… by the Minister Conference. The WTO’s headquarters are in Geneva Switzerland.