The ERC said the main outcome of the agriculture negotiations was that they had „contributed a lot to defining its own common policy.“ However, developing countries, which played a minor role throughout the negotiations, have benefited from significant tariff reductions, particularly for non-agricultural goods of interest to them. Some arbitration clauses are unenforceable and, in other cases, arbitration may not be sufficient to resolve a dispute. For example, disputes over the validity of registered intellectual property rights may be settled by a public body within the national registration system. [123] In the case of matters of significant public interest that go beyond the narrow interests of the parties to the agreement, such as allegations that a party breached a contract by committing unlawful anti-competitive conduct or committing civil rights violations, a court may find that the parties may assert one or all of their rights before contracting out. [124] The Uruguay Round Agricultural Agreement remains the most important agreement in the history of trade negotiations on trade liberalization of agricultural products. The aim of the agreement was to improve market access for agricultural products, reduce national aid to agriculture in the form of price-distorting subsidies and quotas, eliminate agricultural export subsidies over time and harmonize health and plant health measures among Member States as much as possible. Each country recognized by private international law has its own national legal system to govern treaties. While contract law systems may have similarities, they can differ significantly. As a result, many contracts contain a choice of law clause and a jurisdiction clause. These provisions define the laws of the contracting country and the country or other forum in which disputes are settled.
Without explicit agreement on such issues in the treaty itself, countries have rules for determining treaty law and jurisdiction over litigation. For example, European Member States apply Article 4 of the Rome I Regulation to decide on the law applicable to the Treaty and the Brussels I regulation on competence. In the end, tariffs fell by 35%, with the exception of textiles, chemicals, steel and other sensitive products; In addition to a 15% to 18% reduction in tariffs on agricultural and food products. In addition, the chemical negotiations resulted in an interim agreement on the abolition of the US selling price (ASP). This was a method of assessing certain chemicals used by these countries for the institution of import duties, which gave domestic producers a much higher level of protection than indicated under tariff conditions. While trade and exchange rules have existed since antiquity, modern contractual laws have been traceable in the West since the Industrial Revolution (1750), when more and more people were working in factories for cash wages. In particular, the growing strength of the British economy and the adaptability and flexibility of the English common law have led to a rapid evolution of English contract law. The colonies within the British Empire (including the United States and the Dominions) would pass the law of the motherland.