Abstract

The goal of this paper is to investigate Iran accession to WTO and its effects on food industries, the mentioned goal will be accomplished by variable factors such as custom structure reform and improvement, increasing competitive abilities, increasing products quality, developing foreign markets and creating Job opportunities as research hypothesis. The type of article is descriptive-cognitive and the related information for this scope has been collected by using library resources such as books, scientific journals and moreover for collecting necessary data in order to accept or reject the research hypotheses a questionnaire made by researcher has been used. The statistical society of research includes a group of food industry experts in Isfahan province and the method being used has been random sampling. Results of this research show that Iran accession to WTO has great influence in above mentioned variables of food industries.

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  • The main purpose of The world trade organization which its operating is in accordance with the world trade rules, is to guarantees smooth and free procedure, the consumer and producer know that they have enough right in choosing goods, Buying raw materials and services which have been created for their use, foreign markets will be open to them and they can benefit from safe services as long as they like (Esfandiyari- 2005)

  • This paper is a descriptive –cognition and related information for this scope have been collected by using library resources like books and scientific journals, for the collecting necessary data in order to accept or reject research hypotheses, a questionnaire designed by researchers has been used, mentioned questionnaire has four selective choices and their answers are varied between the most and the least, the scope of research from aspect of subject is Iran accession to World trade organization (WTO) and its effects on food industries

  • Hypothesis test is in the error level of (0.05) and reliability level of (0.95), as the significant level of (0.0058) is less than (0.05), so the hypothesis H0 will be rejected and hypothesis H1 will be accepted. 8.2 Second hypothesis Iran accession to WTO wills increases the competitive strength of food industries

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Introduction

Nowadays economists believe that the developing countries are more interested in joining to WTO these countries have a very rough path to achieve trade freedom , but always made their attempt to make their trade in accordance with world trade rules ,about Iran after researching for many years regarding positive and negative aspect of joining to this organization and whether to join or not decide to present its request of member ship and after twenty two times rejection in 2005 was accepted as observer member. There have been some studies about the accession of Iran to WTO .Azizi, Khosro (2001), in a study about Iran and world trade organization, describe the structure of WTO and how a country could be a member of it, the result of his study shows that if a country wants to achieve the sustainable development should be a member of world trade organization.

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