21. Are there any other factors, that might have increased, for an incre might have led to an increase in world trade? 22. Why, why do we want to liberalize world trade? 23. The code argues that sea transport is one of the least environmentally damaging forms of transport and draws attention to a reduction in marine pollution despite increasing world trade. 24. The ILO report says that while world trade expanded dramatically in recent years, many working people who contributed to the process did not receive the full benefit. 25. With free trade and payments in the early fifties, the United States would have tended to secure a far greater share of world trade. 26. It is appropriate to consider briefly some of the more important developments in world trade over the past fifteen years or so. 27. In short, the unprecedented growth in world trade referred to earlier has been all but curtailed. 28. The overriding aim of GATT, and from which the principles described above derive, is the continuing liberalisation of world trade. 29. As a result the GATT agreements have been responsible -- at least in part -- for the considerable growth in world trade referred to earlier. 30. He is also in charge of an economy so large that it makes a real difference to world trade and to British economic fortunes in particular. |