Assessment of Structural Factors Affecting the Attachment of Iran to WTO: A Study on Cooperative Sector

The purpose of this paper is to examinee and assess structural factors affecting Iran’s accession of cooperative Sector to world trade organization. To this end a sample survey was conducted to study 164 cooperative societies in Mazandaran province from which 87 were agricultural and 77 inelustrial societies. Several statistical tests including binomial and linier regression were used to reach the research conclusions. The results show that cooperative societies of magnetron province do not hold the appropriate conditions needed for gaining to world trade organization. The tests of structural equations model show that among structural features studied marketing variable with 44% and production variable with 32% have the most remarkable impact on the above-mentioned conclusions.