Table of Contents

Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Legal framework for tariff negotiations and renegotiations under GATT 1994; 2. Tariff conferences and rounds of multilateral trade negotiations; 3. Bilateral and plurilateral negotiations; 4. Practice and procedures in renegotiations; 5. Schedules of tariff concessions: rectification, modification and consolidation; 6. Conclusions; Appendix A. Key provisions in the Havana Charter and GATT 1994 and related decision and understandings; Appendix B. Decisions and declarations commencing rounds of multilateral trade negotiations; Appendix C. Protocols embodying the results of multilateral trade negotiations; Appendix D. Decisions on procedures on renegotiations, rectifications, modifications and related subjects; Bibliography.

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Provides the only comprehensive historical account of the process of multilateral tariff negotiations from 1947 to 2017.

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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created in 1947 and operated almost five decades on a provisional basis until 1995 when the WTO was established. Its goal is to improve the welfare of peoples of its member countries, specifically by lowering trade barriers and providing a platform for the negotiation of trade. The organization deals with the rules of trade between nations at a global or near global level; it is responsible for negotiating and implementing new trade agreements and charged with policing Member Countries' adherence to all WTO agreements. In 2007 there were 150 Member States.