(15) Why did Nepal need to align its laws with WTO norms?

9.1.1 Introduction The WTO — the multilateral trading system's organization (established 1 January 1995, Geneva): the 160-plus members' trade rules' keeper — the goods, services, IP, and the disputes' forum. A member-driven, consensus-based intergovernmental organization: the rules bind the STATES (the traders feel them through national law — Unit 1's public layer's apex). 9.1.2 Genesis (including the Uruguay Round) The pre-war collapse — the 1930s protectionist spiral (the lesson learned); The 1944-48 design — the Bretton Woods twins (IMF, World Bank) + the ITO's plan (the Havana Charter — the political stillbirth); The GATT 1947's provisional survival — the eight negotiating rounds (the Kennedy-and- Tokyo faces), the rules' growth; The Uruguay Round (1986-1994) — the widest negotiation in trade history: the goods' further liberalisation + the NEW subjects (the services — GATS; the IP — TRIPS; the dispute settlement's binding revolution — the DSU; the agriculture's rules; the textiles' return) — the Final Act signed at Marrakesh (April 1994), establishing the WTO from 1 January 1995; The WTO era — the membership's expansion; the Doha Round (2001 — the development mandate; the stalemate); the regionalism's rise; the Appellate Body's crisis (below). 9.1.3 Principles, Objectives, Functions and Structure of WTO The principles: (i) NON-DISCRIMINATION — the MFN (the advantage to one = the advantage to all; GATT Art. I) + the…