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The Annecy Round was a multi-year multilateral trade negotiation (MTN) between 26 nation-states that were parties to the
GATT The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas. According to its p ...
. This second round took place in 1949 in the Imperial Hote

in
Annecy Annecy ( , ; , also ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Haute-Savoie Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, regi ...
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France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
. 13 countries took part in the round. The main focus of the talks was more tariff reductions, around 5,000 in total.


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World Trade Organization General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Commercial treaties Treaties concluded in 1949 Annecy {{Treaty-stub