The global economic state of post World War II called for the creation of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the World Bank ( the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ).

According to international organizations such as UNESCO and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), cultural industries ( sometimes also known as " creative industries ") combine the creation, production, and distribution of goods and services that are cultural in nature and usually protected by intellectual property rights.

GATT was signed in 1948 and lasted until 1993, when it was replaced by the World Trade Organization in 1995.

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The country was admitted to the United Nations in 1955 and is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade / World Trade Organization ( GATT / WTO ), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), and the Council of Europe.

* 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation ( WTO ), is founded.

It advocates reduction and eventual elimination of the role the United States plays in multinational and international organizations such as the United Nations, and favors withdrawal of the United States from most current treaties, such as North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), and the World Trade Organization.

** The World Trade Organization ( WTO ) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ).

UNCTAD grew from the view that existing institutions like GATT ( now replaced by the World Trade Organization, WTO ), the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), and World Bank were not properly organized to handle the particular problems of developing countries.

In 1994, GATT was replaced with the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), which oversees international trade agreements today.

However, in 1995, during the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations established the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) as the replacement body for GATT.

: the United States has, among other things, attempted or been perceived as attempting more or less unilaterally to do the following: pressure other countries to adopt American values and practices regarding human rights and democracy ; prevent other countries from acquiring military capabilities that could counter American conventional superiority ; enforce American law extra-territorially in other societies ; grade countries according to their adherence to American standards on human rights, drugs, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, missile proliferation, and now religious freedom ; apply sanctions against countries that do not meet American standards on these issues ; promote American corporate interests under the slogans of free trade and open markets and GATT being the main examples of the free trade policy initiatives of the 1990s ; shape World Bank and International Monetary Fund policies to serve those same corporate interests ; intervene in local conflicts in which it has relatively little direct interest ; ... ; promote American arms sales abroad while attempting to prevent comparable sales by other countries ; force out one U. N. secretary-general and dictate the appointment of his successor ; expand NATO initially to include Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic and no one else ; undertake military action against Iraq and later maintain harsh economic sanctions against the regime ; and categorize certain countries as ' rogue states ,' excluding them from global institutions ....< sup > 1 </ sup >

The Generalized System of Preferences, or GSP, is a formal system of exemption from the more general rules of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), ( formerly, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or GATT ).

In 1948 the United States joined the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), the predecessor organization of the World Trade Organization.

After World War II, tariff and trade agreements were negotiated simultaneously by all interested parties through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), which ultimately resulted in the World Trade Organization in 1994.

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Along with the political institutions of the UN the post-war years also saw the development of other multilateral organizations such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) ( now the World Trade Organization ), the World Bank ( so-called ' Bretton Woods ' institutions ) and the World Health Organization.

Thus, after the Second World War, the West turned to multilateral agreements such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ).

* Anti-Dumping Agreement, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) about anti-competitive dumping pricing practices

* General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT )

Cyprus ratified the new world trade agreement ( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT ) in 1995 and began implementing it fully on 1 January 1996.

In addition, the country has signed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Agreement ( MIGA ).

In order to ensure that the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) was not violated, the Secretariat of GATT was consulted during the drafting process.

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is a multilateral agreement regulating international trade.

As a government minister he has held numerous portfolios, becoming best known in his role as Overseas Trade Minister with involvement in the GATT negotiations.

In 1993, Namibia became a signatory of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) signatory, and the Minister of Trade and Industry represented Namibia at the Marrakech signing of the Uruguay Round Agreement in April 1994.

Membership in international organizations includes the United Nations, Organization of African Unity, African Development Bank, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), Economic Commission for Central African States, Central African Customs and Economic Union, International Coffee Organization, Union of Central African States, INTELSAT, International Criminal Police Organization-Interpol, Non-Aligned Movement, and Group of 77.

* 1973-Singapore joins General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ).

** The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) talks reach a successful conclusion after 7 years.

** General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) inaugurated.

Under the 1979 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) Government Procurement Code, the U. S .- Israel Free Trade Agreement, the U. S .- Canada Free Trade Agreement, and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) 1996 Agreement on Government Procurement ( GPA ), the United States provides access to the government procurement of certain U. S. agencies for goods from the other parties to those agreements.

The Round transformed the GATT into the World Trade Organization.

The agreement established the World Trade Organization, which came into being upon its entry into force on January 1, 1995, to replace the GATT system.

* Filanlyason, J., Zakher M., The GATT and the regulation of Trade Barriers: Regime Dynamic and Functions ; International Organization, Vol.

According to World Trade Organization rules, a country can launch its own investigation and decide to charge extra duties, provided such additional duties are in accordance with the GATT Article VI and the GATT Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.

The other 52 GATT members rejoined the WTO in the following two years ( the last being Congo in 1997 ).

National treatment is a basic principle of GATT / WTO that prohibits discrimination between imported and domestically produced goods with respect to internal taxation or other government regulation.

This exemption allowed contracting parties to the GATT ( the equivalent of today's WTO members ) to establish systems of trade preferences for other countries, with the caveat that these systems had to be " generalized, non-discriminatory and non-reciprocal ' with respect to the countries they benefited ( so-called " beneficiary " countries ).

For example, France was granted a cultural exception during the GATT negotiations, despite the objections of the American movie industry ; as a result, in 2005 its domestic film market consisted of only 75 % of US-originated content in comparison with 90 % share of the other European countries.

The 1962 legislation explicitly eliminated the " Peril Point " provision that had limited U. S. negotiating positions in earlier General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) rounds, and instead called on the Tariff Commission and other agencies of the U. S. government to provide the president and his negotiators with information regarding the probable economic effects of specific tariff concessions.

The Uruguay round of global trade talks, concluded in 1994 with Sutherland as chair of GATT, produced the biggest trade agreement in history and established the World Trade Organisation.

* Fair Trade, Not Free Trade: oppose the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), the Free Trade Area of the Americas treaty ( FTAA ), the World Trade Organization treaty ( WTO ), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), and any future global trade treaties