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Urgency of trade reform over trade liberalisation

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The GATT system has in recent years revealed a number of dangerous weaknesses. Therefore there is reason for concern not only with the further liberalisation of trade within the accepted framework of GATT rules but with a reform of the rules as well.

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    Hugh Corbet

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Corbet, H. Urgency of trade reform over trade liberalisation. Intereconomics 12, 134–137 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928709

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