Sao Paolo Declaration
Accra Joint Communique
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The road to the GSTP began in Mexico City in 1976 when the Group of 77 first articulated the establishment of a global system of trade preferences among developing countries. In Arusha and Caracas, the Group formulated the principles that underpin the GSTP today. Following a decision taken in New York in 1982, work on a framework agreement proceeded in Geneva. Ministerial meetings in New Delhi in 1985 and in Brasilia in 1986 prompted the elaboration of the text of an agreement and the beginning of the First Round of negotiations. Finally, in Belgrade in 1988, developing countries that participated in the negotiations adopted the text of the Agreement on the Global System of Trade Preferences Among Developing Countries. The following year, the Agreement entered into force.
In June 2004 in Brazil, Ministers of GSTP Participants adopted the São Paulo Declaration launching the Third Round of negotiations. Today, representatives of Participants in Geneva are engaged in negotiations to further promote and expand trade ties among developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, not only for their benefit, but also for the benefit of global trade. Through trade, GSTP Participants aspire to increase their participation in the global economy and identify complementarities among their economies so as to open the tremendous potential for trade cooperation envisaged when they adopted the Agreement in 1988.
Through this website, the GSTP Participants aim to disseminate information about the Agreement and improve transparency of its operations so that the GSTP may be better understood.
This is their mission.
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