4-626: The Dillon Round was a multi-year multilateral trade negotiation (MTN) between 26 nation-states that were parties to the GATT . The fifth round in the GATT occurred in Geneva and lasted from May 1959 through July 1962. The talks were named after U.S. Treasury Secretary and former Under Secretary of State, Douglas Dillon , who first proposed the talks. Along with reducing over $ 4.9 billion in tariffs with about 4,400 item-by-item cuts, it also yielded discussion relating to
8-603: The auspices of the GATT and aimed at reducing tariff and nontariff trade barriers. In 1995 the World Trade Organization (WTO) replaced the GATT as the administrative body. A current round of multilateral trade negotiations was conducted in the Doha Development Agenda round. Prior to the ongoing Doha Development Round , eight GATT sessions took place: The third WTO Ministerial Conference in Seattle, 1999,
12-565: The creation of the European Economic Community ( EEC ). One of its achievements was the adoption of a common external tariff by the European Economic Community . Significant concessions on tariffs to agricultural exports were granted by the United States . The Dillon Round was also agreed by 11 other Developed Countries and six Less Developed Countries : Cambodia , Haiti , India , Israel , Pakistan and Peru . Concern
16-722: Was expressed in the US over the potential exclusion by the EEC of traditional trading partners. At the time, the six-nation EEC accounted for one-sixth of US foreign trade, including over one-fifth of US farm exports. The Trade Expansion Act was passed as a result of the Dillon Round, in order to "help preserve the economic basis for Atlantic co-operation." Multilateral trade negotiations The term multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) initially applied to negotiations between General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) member nations conducted under
#482517