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...give might still be taken away when actual negotiations begin in Moscow in November (for Khrushchev also insisted upon "maintaining and expanding" Finnish trade with Russia). Nevertheless, a Finnish official in Helsinki jubilantly cried, "We're in, we're in!" and Finland's representatives at a GATT conference in Ge neva asked other EFTA members to consider them as already members...
...discrimination against U.S. goods "with all feasible speed." A few days later, the meeting of the 37-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Tokyo echoed the same theme. Fortnight ago. Britain, France and Japan all set about complying with the spirit of the IMF and GATT meetings. Britain wiped out quotas on most U.S. goods. France pared some tariffs on U.S. imports, scrapped a batch of import quotas, promised to get rid of the rest within two years. Japan promised to cancel restrictions on a wide array of U.S. goods by early...
Spokesman for the important policy change was the U.S.'s No. 2 diplomat, Under Secretary of State (for Economic Affairs) C. Douglas Dillon. "Either we move ahead to get rid of outmoded trade restrictions," he told the 54 nations represented at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) meeting in Tokyo, "or we can expect a resurgence of protectionism and restrictive action." Two days later he told members of the America-Japan Society: "During the era of the so-called 'dollar shortage' we were disposed to be passive about foreign discriminations against our exports...
EUROPE'S COMMON MARKET is running into opposition from free nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. At annual meeting of 37-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) these countries protested because common market plans to eliminate tariffs on imports from its own members' overseas territories, but maintain steep tariffs on other imports. Thus, French and Belgian territories in Africa would get much of the brisk European tea, coffee and cocoa trade now dominated by India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Brazil, Ghana...
...instead. With Canada's wheat surplus ripening into his worst domestic worry, Diefenbaker also attacked U.S. wheat export "giveaways," which insist that importing countries guarantee "certain fixed market commitments for the future." He called the U.S. policy a "definite contravention" of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT...