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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950, National Security Affairs; Foreign Economic Policy, Volume I

Matters relating to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1949, vol. i, pp. 651 ff.


Contents

    • I. The problem of quantitative restrictions on exports and imports (Documents 237–243)
      • II. United States concern at the discriminatory aspects of exchange and import restrictions maintained by the Union of South Africa. (Documents 244–250)
        • III. Position of the United States regarding consultations on sterling area restrictions on dollar imports (Documents 251–269)
          • IV. Concern of the Department of State regarding the renewal by the Congress of the trade agreements act; the United States decision concerning the proposed International Trade Organization (ITO) (Documents 270–276)
            • V. United States preparations for the tariff negotiating conference convened at Torquay, England, September 28, 1950 (“the third round”) (Documents 277–290)

            Contents

            • Preface
            • Introductory note
            • List of Abbreviations and Symbols
            • United States policy at the United Nations with respect to the regulation of armaments and collective security: the international control of atomic energy; regulation of conventional armaments; efforts to implement article 43 of the United Nations charter by placing armed forces at the disposal of the Security Council (Documents 1–50)
            • United States national security policy: estimates of threats to the national security; the extension of military assistance to foreign nations; the preparation of NSC 68, “United States Objectives and Programs for National Security” (Documents 51–156)
            • Foreign policy aspects of United States development of atomic energy (Documents 157–201)
            • United States policy regarding hemisphere defense, 1949–1950; provision of armaments and military assistance to the american republics, and their participation in the Korean conflict (Documents 202–230)
            • Progress of the program for the modernization of the treaties of friendship, commerce, and navigation (Documents 231–233)
            • Progress of the program for the negotiation of conventions for the avoidance of double taxation (Documents 234–236)
            • Matters relating to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
              • I. The problem of quantitative restrictions on exports and imports (Documents 237–243)
              • II. United States concern at the discriminatory aspects of exchange and import restrictions maintained by the Union of South Africa. (Documents 244–250)
              • III. Position of the United States regarding consultations on sterling area restrictions on dollar imports (Documents 251–269)
              • IV. Concern of the Department of State regarding the renewal by the Congress of the trade agreements act; the United States decision concerning the proposed International Trade Organization (ITO) (Documents 270–276)
              • V. United States preparations for the tariff negotiating conference convened at Torquay, England, September 28, 1950 (“the third round”) (Documents 277–290)
            • Papers relating to aspects of the foreign financial policy of the United States (Documents 291–297)
            • Efforts to develop a United States policy regarding the balance-of-payments problem (“the dollar gap”); the Gordon Gray report to the President on foreign economic policies (Documents 298–303)
            • The Point Four program (Documents 304–317)
            • United States policy regarding questions pertaining to the delimitation of the territorial sea, and related matters
              • I. Delimitation of inland waters and the marginal sea (Documents 318–323)
              • II. United States policy on the question of access to the resources of the sea (Documents 324–325)
            • Impact of the internal security act of 1950 (the McCarran act) upon the conduct of United States foreign relations (Document 326)
            • United States policy with regard to the Antarctic (Documents 327–336)
            • Index
            • Errata

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