General agreement on tariffs and trade (GATT)

General agreement on tariffs and trade (GATT)

The vehicle for promoting international free trade, through a series of rounds of negotiations between the governments of trading countries. The first GATT round began in 1945. The last led to the establishment of the world trade organisation in 1995.

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