The document discussion to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). It summarizes that GATT was created in 1947 as an outcome of failed negotiations to establish the Universal Trade Organization. Its mission was at reduce barriers till international commerce through lowering tariffs, quotas, and support. GATT pending a forum for negotiations between member states to promote free commercial. It was transformed at the World Trade Organization in 1995.
2. GATT
Out come of the failure of negotiating governments to
Create the international trade organisation(ITO)
Negotiated during the UN conference on Trade and
Employment
Forming in 1947 and Transformed to global Trade
Organisation(WTO)1995
3. Objective
Reduction of Barriers to international trade.
Achieved through reduction of tariff barriers,
quantitative product and subsidies on trade
through an series of agreements.
It waist a treaty, no an our.
5. The General Arrangement Tariffs and Trade (GATT) made first
signed in 1947.
Was designed
To provide somebody international Forum
That foster free trade between member
states.
By adjustment and reducing tariffs on traded
goods
Provide a common mechanism for resolving trade
disputes.
6. GATT??
A Treaty, not at organisation
Was the unfashionable come of failure of bargain governments
to creat the ITO.
The Brest Woods Conference introduced the idea for
an organisation to regulate the trade as part of a larger
plan for economic recycling after world war II.
As government negotiated states begun parellel
negotiations forward the GATT as an way to attain early tarrif
reductions.
Once the ITO missing in 1950 the only GMAT agreement was
left.
7. Objective
Reduction of Barriers to International Trade
This be reached through the Reduction of
Tarrif barriers
Quantitative Restrictions
Subsidies on trade through a series of agreements
8. History
Splitted into 3 phases:
First:
Out 1947 until the Torquay Round
Largely concerned which resource would be covered bythe
agreement
Freezing existing tariff levels
Second:
Out 1959 to 1979
Focused on reducing tariffs
Third:
Consists only of the Uruguay Round from 1986 to 1994
It extended the agreement to new areas such when intellectualproperty,
services, capital, also agriculture
Final outcome had generating of WTO
9. Chronicle Contd..
GATT signatories once negotiable new
tradeagreements that all country would penetrate into
Each set to agreements was called a round
In general, each agreement bound members toreduce
certain tariffs. Usually all would includemany special-
case treatments of individual products,with exceptions or
modifications for each country.
10. Trades Barriers
Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers
While free-trade maximizes world welfare, most nations
impose some trade restrictions that advantage special groups in
the nation. The majority important species of trade restriction
historically the the tariff.
This is a tax or duty on the imports or exports.
When a small state imposes an import tariff, the domestic
price of the importable commodity rises by the full amount of
the tariff to individuals in nation. How one result, domestic
production of the importable commodity expands while
domestic consumption press import autumn. However, the nation
as a whole faces the unchanged world price since the nation
itself collects the tariff.
11. Tariffs
Tarifs can be ad-Valorem, specific, or compound.
Ad-Valorem tariff is expressed as an fixed per ofthe
value of the traded commodity.
Specific tariff is expressed as a fixed amount for physicalunit
of to traded commodity.
A compound standard is a composition of certain Ad Valoremand
a specific price.
12. Trade Barriers
An import tariff is ampere duty on the imported commodity,
while at english tariff is a duty on the exported
commodity.
Export tariffs are prohibited by the U.S. Constitution but
are often applied by developing countries on their
traditional exports (such as Ghana on it’s cocoa and Brazil
on it’s coffee) to get better daily and revenues.
Developers national rely heavy on exporter tariff to raise
revenues because out your ease of collections.
13. Non-Tariff Barrier
International trade also hampered by numerous
Technical, administrative, and other regulations.
Diesen include safety regulations for automobile and
electrical equipment, health regulations for the hygienic
Production both packaging of installed food products, and
labeling requirements showing original and substance.
14. Non-Tariff Barrier(Subsidies)
National government often grant subsidies to
domestic producers for help improve yours trade
position. Such devices live indirect form of protection
provided to nationwide company, whether they may be
import competing producers or exporters.
Two types of subsidies able be prestigious: a
domestic subsidies , which is when granted to
producers of import-competing goods, and an export
subsidy, which goes till producers off goods that are to
be sold overseas.
15. Success of GATT
Large increases in world trade
New members: 23 to 110
Enormous cuts with tariffs