General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

• The Wto in Theory & Practice

The World Trade Organization, like many multilaterally functioning institutions, has a storied history. In their recent working paper, "The WTO in Theory and Practice," Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger, explain now the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which would be later become the WTO, was carefully built to be one of the most successful international organizations ever created. The authors of this article surveyed existing theories of trade agreements, which showed that these agreements would work only if a proper solution could be gained from their formation. All theories of trade agreements were noted to have identified a reason for what negotiating governments could gain from the agreements. However, the analysis shows that terms-of-trade rationale has been found t...

• Yale Economic Review
• Vol. 6 Nbr. 1, January 2010

• The economics of GATT.

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a significant institution that was created in 1947 to promote international trade by reducing trade barriers among the 23 member countries who originally signed the treaty. Its successor, the World Trade Organization, has grown in membership to 125 nations. This has reflected its success in facilitating multilateral tariff liberalization and its importance for the global economy. A theoretical interpretation of GATT and its main features is therefore attempted.

• NBER Reporter
• Nbr. 1999, June 1999

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) originated with a meeting of 22 nations meeting in 1947 in Geneva, Switzerland. By ...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Fri–Jam

• 19 USC 2905 - Sec. 2905. Accession of state trading regimes to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or WTO

• U.S. Code - Title 19: Customs Duties

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT): Textile and apparel products integration; export visa requirements,

• FR, December 05, 2001
• Notices
• Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

• 48 CFR 27.209 - Use of patented technology under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 48: Federal Acquisition Regulations System

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT): Textile and clothing products intergration into World Trade Organization (second stage),

• FR, October 07, 1998
• Notices
• Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

• Ccrr Experts Recommend Ukraine to Apply Wto Norms to Restrict Aggressive Import of Ferro-Alloys

KIEV, Ukraine, Dec. 8, 2011 / PRNewswire/ -- According to the study "Ferroalloy Industry of Ukraine: Current State, Problems and Prospect" (http:// corporativ.info/en/?/analytics/3723/) prepared by the experts of the Center of Corporate Relations Research (CCRR), Ukraine faces a situation threatening the existence of domestic ferro-alloy industry. The research reveals that during the first eight months of 2011, import of ferro-alloys in Ukraine increased by 120% against the same period of 2010. In comparison with 2010 the share of Ukrainian market of ferro-alloys accounted for imported products, grew more than twice, from 25% to 52% of the market volume. font>Serhiy Hryshchenko, former Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Industrial Policy (1997-2000, 2005, 2007-20...

• U.S. Newswire
• December 08, 2011

• The last round: the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in light of the Earth Summit.

Trade and the Environment

• Environmental Law
• Vol. 23 Nbr. 2, April 1993

• Agricultural Production—Livestock

... industry often mirrors that of the general economy: in periods of expansion, livestock produc...The continued liberalization of global trade would also spur further growth in both production ... authorities in 2004 indicated that an agreement about poultry imports might occur in the near futu...General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Tr...

• Encyclopedia of Global Industries, 4th ed.
• Agriculture