Abstract
Trade between nations is as old as nations themselves, but until the twentieth century it was conducted without interference from international institutions. During the period after the end of the Second World War there was an expansion of international organizations in many different areas, but the plan to establish an International Trade Organization (ITO) failed because the US did not ratify the charter of this trade organization in 1946. A by-product of this failure was the establishment of a temporary contract, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Only on 1 January 1995 was the WTO established as an international trade organization.1
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© 2011 Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt
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da Conceição-Heldt, E. (2011). Multilateral Agricultural Trade Regime. In: Negotiating Trade Liberalization at the WTO. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306998_3
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