MATTERS} RELATING TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT: ON
TARIFFS AND TRADE (GATT)*

i. THE PROBLEM OF QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS, ON EXPORTS
AND IMPORTS

International Trade Files, Lot 57D284, Box 162 2 |
Department of State Press Release, January 1, 1950

CALENDAR oF TrapE AGREEMENTS

Countries which are contracting parties to the General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trade concluded at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1947 * are
indicated below by asterisks. Those contracting parties with which the
United States had concluded bilateral trade agreements before the
negotiation of the General Agreement are indicated by double asterisks
and the present status of the earlier agreements is shown in the list
on the following page.

At Annecy, France, in 1949 the United States and other contracting —
parties to the General Agreement negotiated with 10 other countries
for accession of the latter to the agreement. 'These new acceding coun-
tries are: Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Finland, Greece, Haiti,
Italy, Liberia, Nicaragua, Sweden, and Uruguay. Of these only Haiti
has completed the necessary steps in order to accede to the agreement
and United States concessions initially negotiated with that country
will become effective on January 1, 1950. The other acceding coun-
tries have until April 80, 1950, to take similar action. The United
States will not give effect to the concessions initially negotiated with
these countries until such action is taken.

 

1 Continued from Foreign Relations, 1949, vol. 1, pp. 651 ff.

7 Comprehensive collection of files on commercial trade policy, the question
of an international trade organization, and the negotiation, conclusion,. and .
operation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), as assembled
and maintained in various economic offices of the Department of State principally
during the years 1984-1951. .

2 For the text of the Protocol of Provisional Application of the General Agree-
ment on Tariffs and Trade, concluded at Geneva, Switzerland on October 30,
1947, see Department of State Treaties and Other International Acts Series
(TIAS) No. 1700 or 61 Stat. (pts. 5 and 6). For documentation on the Geneva
negotiations leading to the conclusion of the General Agreement, see Foreign
Relations, 1947, vol. 1, pp. 909 ff. For bibliographic and historical information
regarding GATT, see ibid., 1949, vol. 1, p. 651, footnote 2.

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