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Over the past three decades the non-tariff barriers to trade have grown in importance inversely to the import duties which have been lowered under GATT auspices. In the current GATT negotiations — the Tokyo round in which the contracting parties have been at work since the autumn of 1973 to solve the acute trade-political problems — non-tariff trade barriers are for the first time playing a major role.
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Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie.
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Quambusch, L. Non-Tariff barriers to trade. Intereconomics 12, 79–83 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928697
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928697