SUPERLATIVES surrounded the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) when it was signed on October 30th 1947. A press release heralded it as “the most far-reaching negotiation[s] ever The result was the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at the July 1944 Bretton Woods Conference and the signing of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade at an international conference in Geneva in October 1947. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was signed in 1947, is a multilateral agreement regulating trade among 153 countries. According to its preamble, the purpose of the GATT is the "substantial reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers and the elimination of preferences, on a reciprocal and mutually advantageous basis." This exhibit provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947-1994. GATT was a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas, substantial
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created after World War II to aid global economic recovery through reconstructing and liberalizing global trade. GATT's main objective was to reduce barriers to international trade through the reduction of tariffs, quotas and subsidies.
Request PDF | Generalized System of Preferences in General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization: History and current issues | The December 15, 1993: The Uruguay Round of trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) concluded after seven years, resulting The General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade Markup: Brian Baggins; Online Version: Capitalism History Archive (marxists.org) 2002; Further Reading: GATT The present study investigates the history of the General System of Preferences within the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is usually given 2009) and Kee, Neagu and Nicita (2013) and on US historical tariff data includes Irwin. Historical Roots of GATT and the Failure of the ITO. While the These mechanisms were called the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the ITO
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is a portmanteau for a series of global trade negotiations which were held in a total of nine rounds between 1947 and 1995. The GATT was first conceived in the aftermath of the Allied victory in the Second World War at the 1947 United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment (UNCTE), at which the International Trade Organization (ITO) was one of the ideas proposed.
See Article History. Alternative Title: GATT. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), set of multilateral trade agreements aimed at the abolition of quotas
