Torquay Round
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The Torquay Round was a multi-year multilateral trade negotiation (MTN) between 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 third round occurred in
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,
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in 1951. Thirty-eight countries took part in the round. 8,700 tariff concessions were made totalling the remaining amount of tariffs to ¾ of the tariffs which were in effect in 1948. The contemporaneous rejection by the U.S. of the
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{{reflist World Trade Organization General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Commercial treaties Treaties concluded in 1951