Sentence examples for gatt from inspiring English sources

When America banned imports of tuna caught in ways that drown dolphins, Mexico protested to the GATT, the WTO's predecessor.

This was the trade sector first targeted by the founders of the GATT in 1947; after more than 50 years' work, about half the world's trade in goods has been freed from tariffs.

IT HAS been 15 years since China first applied to join the multilateral trading system then called the GATT and now known as the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

The largest economy outside the WTO, Russia first asked to join what was then GATT in 1993.

That is the lesson offered by the history of the GATT process of trade liberalisation, which has managed to prise open the world's markets in fits and starts since the end of the second world war.

Under the new textiles agreement, these quotas are being increased and items covered by the MFA are gradually being brought under GATT rules.

After the first GATT talks in 1947, The Economist sniffed that: "For many of the countries involved customs tariffs are at present without any influence on the volume of trade".

A bilateral free-trade agreement, by contrast, boosts trade by 45% over 20 years, and membership of GATT raises it by 285%.

The Economist: What role would you like the US to play in the region, then?President Mujica: Many years ago in Uruguay, in Punta del Este, the Uruguay Round [of world-trade talks] started, after the old accords of the GATT.

Congress doubts that China should be in the World Trade Organisation; and politicians seem less keen on a "Millennium" global trade round than on bashing Europe about beef and bananas.The mid-1990s, when business helped to push through NAFTA and the GATT and scuttled Mr Clinton's "socialist" health-care plan, seem now like a golden age.

This approach goes back to the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), introduced in 1971 through a waiver and then granted legal status in 1979 with an enabling clause at the GATT.