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Havana Charter
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The drafting of the Charter was a direct outgrowth of the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944, which had already established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). Recognizing the need for a corresponding institutional framework to manage global trade—and prevent a recurrence of the devastating trade wars of the 1930s—the [United Nations Conference…
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January 01 1948
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Implementation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
The provisional entry into force of the GATT/) on this date represented a pragmatic, if somewhat anxious, pivot in international economic governance following the conclusion of the Second World War. Having experienced the deleterious effects of interwar protectionism, signatory nations sought immediate mechanisms to halt the recalcitrant rise of [national…