Book contents
- Assessing the World Trade Organization: Fit for Purpose?
- Assessing the World Trade Organization
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction and Setting the Stage
- Part II New Insight from the Early Times
- 3 The GATT’s Starting Point
- 4 Negotiating in the Early GATT
- Part III General Trends and Patterns in WTO Dispute Settlement
- Part IV Zooming in on Specific Debates
- Part V Interactions Within and Across Regimes
- Index
- References
3 - The GATT’s Starting Point
Tariff Levels Circa 1947
from Part II - New Insight from the Early Times
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2017
Book contents
- Assessing the World Trade Organization: Fit for Purpose?
- Assessing the World Trade Organization
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Introduction and Setting the Stage
- Part II New Insight from the Early Times
- 3 The GATT’s Starting Point
- 4 Negotiating in the Early GATT
- Part III General Trends and Patterns in WTO Dispute Settlement
- Part IV Zooming in on Specific Debates
- Part V Interactions Within and Across Regimes
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Assessing the World Trade OrganizationFit for Purpose?, pp. 45 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
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