translate English to French: Here it is useful to recall Sylvia Ostry’s description of the dynamic that led so many developing countries to join the GATT in the Uruguay Round— not necessarily because of the immediate market access that was on the table but rather to obtain the procedural safeguards of the GATT against unilateral protectionism by developed countries.38 See IMF, World Economic Outlook, September 2002, Table 3.3:
Il n’en demeure pas moins que le pouvoir de création de courants d’échanges d’un accord commercial régional semble être beaucoup plus marqué pour le pays participant que les gains potentiels d’initiatives multilatérales.