The Kennedy Round Tariff Negotiations: The Precursors, the Procedures, and the Positive Results
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Authors
Foxworthy, Robert Earl
Issue Date
1969
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
When I began research on this paper, my original goal was to determine
the effects of the tariff cuts resulting from the Kennedy Round
of Tariff negotiations, completed in June, 1967. I soon found many related
areas of economics which were both necessary for understanding the
field of tariff reduction and interesting to me. So, my paper has used
the Kennedy Round as a focal point around which to discuss tariffs. In
my paper I include a few basic justifications of freer trade, a history
of free trade in the United States, the particular problems preceding
the Kennedy Round, and the Kennedy Round itself. I hope to have given
a broad picture of the problems in any move toward freer trade, using
the Kennedy Round as the most recent and most pertinent move toward freer
trade in the postwar period. The Kennedy Round was a meeting of the
signers of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade for the purpose of
reducing tariffs and other non-tariff barriers to trade. It was held in
Geneva from 1962 to the end of June, 1967. The United States was given
power to organize and participate in the Kennedy Round through the provisions
of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. I hope in this paper to
justify tariff cutting as a move toward free trade and progress from the
Trade Expansion Act to the Kennedy Round and the results of the Kennedy
Round. I have attempted to make most of this paper understandable to
the average undergraduate, but am afraid I may have included too many ideas to make this possible.
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iv, 67 p.
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