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Tariffs: Tariff concessions worth $4.9 billion of world trade Kennedy: May 1964: 37 months: 48: Tariffs, anti-dumping: Tariff concessions worth $40 billion of world trade Tokyo: September 1973: 74 months: 102: Tariffs, non-tariff measures, "framework" agreements: Tariff reductions worth more than $300 billion achieved Uruguay: September 1986: ...
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is 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. According to its preamble, its purpose was the "substantial reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers and the elimination ...
Pages in category "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Kennedy Round officially opened on May 4, 1964, at the Palais des Nations.It was the last GATT round to have tariff reduction as its primary focus. [8] However, it was the first GATT round to deal with non-tariff issues, such as dumping, a practice whereby a company exports a product at a price lower than the price it charges in its home market. [9]
The first recorded customs tariff was from 136 in Palmyra, an oasis city in the Syrian desert. [1] Beginning near the end of the 20th century, the procedures used throughout most of the world for customs valuation were codified in the Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994. [2]
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is 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. According to its preamble, its purpose was the "substantial reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers and the elimination ...
The Uruguay Round was the 8th round of multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) conducted within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), spanning from 1986 to 1993 and embracing 123 countries as "contracting parties".
The Torquay Round was a multi-year multilateral trade negotiation (MTN) between nation-states that were parties to the GATT. This third round occurred in Torquay , England in 1951. [ 2 ] Thirty-eight countries took part in the round. 8,700 tariff concessions were made totalling the remaining amount of tariffs to ¾ of the tariffs which were in ...