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there is problems and shortcomings of the membership which can be a real problem in the

achieving of the main goals from WTO membership. According to the prognoses of UN less

developed countries will sustain a loss of 600mln $ while African countries will suffer about

1.2bln $ after entering the WTO. But the reality exceeded all the prognoses. Developed countries

of WTO didn’t decrease the tariffs and quotas to agricultural goods and but also increased

subsidies to this sector. So this form of the international free trade wastes all the attempts of the

developing countries for developing. The benefit from the trade liberalization can be obtained

only by the prevention of the protectionist measures in industrial and agricultural sector.

However the developed countries and big developing countries protect their market even if it is

not threat for local producers. The figures in the table below show that Azerbaijan falls behind

the other WTO members in the protection of the local market:

Using the measures for regulation of foreign policy

Technical Antidumping and
 Countr Complicated Quotation Licensing Barriers in compensation
y Custom tariffs
trade measures
USA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Japan Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
EU Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Canada Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Australia Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Brazil Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
India Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Chine Yes Yes Ye Yes Yes
Azerbaijan No No Yes Yes No

In USA the custom dues to textile goods and clothes are 35% and 10 % to the import of

chemical goods. In EU the custom dues to clothes and textile goods are 15%. After the Uruguay

round the average custom dues are so:

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