Annex A: Documents Relating to the Negotiations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2011
Summary
General Provisions for Inclusion in Trade Agreements, as revised to December 13, 1941, National Archives II, Lot File 57D-284, Box 89.
A Proposal for an International Commercial Union (James Meade), July 25, 1942, Public Records Office, T 230/14.
Anglo-American Discussions under Article VII: Section on Commercial Policy, November 1943, Public Records Office, BT 11/2215.
Proposed Multilateral Convention on Commercial Policy: Summary of Significant Provisions, U.S. State Department, October 1944, National Archives II, Lot File 57D-284, Box 24.
Excerpts from “Proposals for Expansion of World Trade and Employment,” State Department Publication No. 2411, December 1945.
Preparations for Preliminary International Meeting on Trade and Employment, February 6, 1946, FRUS (1946, I, 1280-1289).
U.S. Delegation Report on First Preparatory Meeting for an International Conference on Trade and Employment (London), December 27, 1946, FRUS (1946, I, 1360-1366).
Report on the Geneva GATT Negotiations, Memorandum from State Department to President Truman, October 17, 1947, FRUS 1947, I, 1015-1024.
Annex A-1
From National Archives II, Lot File 57D-284, Box 89
General Provisions for Inclusion in Trade Agreeements
As revised to December 19, 1941
Preamble
Provisions Relating to Treatment of Trade in General
(1) Most-favored-nation clause
(2) Internal taxes
(3) Quotas in general
(4) Exchange Control
(5) Monopolies and government purchases
(6) Customs administrative matters, advances in duties, and customs pen-alties
Provisions Relating to Concessions
(7) Duty concessions by foreign country
(8) Duty concessions by the United States
(9) Compensating taxes
(10) Dutiable value and conversion of currencies
(11) Quotas on scheduled products
(12) Withdrawal or modification of concessions
(13) General provision to safeguard concessions
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- The Genesis of the GATT , pp. 203 - 284Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008