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March 1948 - Charter of the ITO signed but US Congress rejects it, leaving GATT as the only international instrument governing world trade. 1949 - Second GATT Round of trade talks held at Annecy, France. 1950 - Third GATT Round held in Torquay, England. 1956 - The Geneva Round completed in May 1956, resulting in $2.5 billion in tariff reductions.
This is a timeline of the history of international trade which chronicles notable events that have affected the trade between various countries.. In the era before the rise of the nation state, the term 'international' trade cannot be literally applied, but simply means trade over long distances; the sort of movement in goods which would represent international trade in the modern world.
September 1950: 8 months: 34: Tariffs: Countries exchanged some 8,700 tariff concessions, cutting the 1948 tariff levels by 25% Geneva II: January 1956: 5 months: 22: Tariffs, admission of Japan: $2.5 billion in tariff reductions Dillon: September 1960: 11 months: 45: Tariffs: Tariff concessions worth $4.9 billion of world trade Kennedy: May ...
The GATT was the only multilateral instrument governing international trade from 1946 until the WTO was established on 1 January 1995. [9] Despite attempts in the mid-1950s and 1960s to create some form of institutional mechanism for international trade, the GATT continued to operate for almost half a century as a semi-institutionalized multilateral treaty regime on a provisional basis. [10]
The International Trade Organization (ITO) was the proposed name for an international institution for the regulation of trade.. Led by the United States in collaboration with allies, the effort to form the organization from 1945 to 1948, with the successful passing of the Havana Charter, eventually failed due to lack of approval by the US Congress.
The GATT was first discussed during the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment and was the outcome of the failure of negotiating governments to create the International Trade Organization (ITO). It was signed by 23 nations [2] in Geneva on 30 October 1947, and was applied on a provisional basis 1 January 1948. [1]
The economists Harry Dexter White (left) and John Maynard Keynes (right) at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire [27]. The WTO precursor, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), was established by a multilateral treaty of 23 countries in 1947 after the end of World War II, in the wake of other new multilateral institutions dedicated to international economic cooperation—such ...
During the 1950s and 1960s, the total value of foreign trade was only about 2 percent of the gross national product (GNP). In the 1970s trade grew rapidly but in 1979 still amounted to only about 6 percent of GNP. The importance of foreign trade in this period, however, far exceeded its volume.