The Parties to this Agreement [recognize] that
their relations in the field of trade and economic
endeavour should be conducted with a view
to raising standards of living, ensuring full
employment and a large and steadily growing
volume of real income and effective demand, and
expanding the production of and trade in goods
and services, while allowing for the optimal use
of the world’s resources in accordance with the
objective of sustainable development, seeking
both to protect and preserve the environment
and to enhance the means for doing so in a
manner consistent with their respective needs
and concerns at different levels of economic
development …”