9. The WTO is the world’s only international organization that supervises 95% of the world’s global trade.The WTO agreements include numerous provisions giving developing and least-developed countries special rights or extra leniency — “special and differential treatment”.
Among these are provisions that allow developed countries to treat developing countries more favourably than other WTO members. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT, which deals with trade in goods) has a special section (Part 4) on Trade and Development which includes provisions on the concept of non-reciprocity in trade negotiations between developed and developing countries — when developed countries grant trade concessions to developing countries they should not expect the developing countries to make matching offers in return.