Identify the Challenges and Solutions for Joining Iran to the World Trade Organization

Joining the WTO opens a big competitive market for Iranian producers through which they can make their abilities global. Many industries in the current competitive environment require proper planning and decision making for joining the international communities with world-class approach. For competition in the global markets, it is required for the countries to be a member of the WTO as the main custodian of free trade and movement of goods and services in the world.According to the membership of majority countries in the world in this organization and the massive amount of trades between these countries, there are many opposite and agreement comments as well as challenges before and after joining Iran to the WTO. According to the analysis on the challenges of joining to this organization, some solutions have been presented in automotive industry for dealing with the challenges after joining Iran to the mentioned organization.Given the importance of this topic, the main objective of this study is to apply the DEMATEL method to identify and prioritize the challenges as well as presenting some solutions for joining Iran to the WTO with production approach in world-class in Iran’s automotive industry using three ramifications model. During the administrative process in this study and after identifying the challenges, the network relationships were determined and some solutions were presented and prioritized. In the last section of study, the mentioned explanations are summarized and then, discussion, comparison, conclusion and suggestions are presented.