Geneva Round

{{Infobox recurring event |name = Geneva Round |logo = |logo_caption = |logo_size = |image = |image_size = |caption = |status = Complete |genre = Trade Round |begins = 1955 |ends = 1956 |venue = |location = Geneva |country = Switzerland |prev = Torquay Round |next = Dillon Round |participants = 26 <ref name="International Economics, 8e">{{cite book |last1=Gerber |first1=James |title=International Economics, 8e |date=2020 |publisher=Pearson Education, Inc. |location=221 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030 |isbn=9780136892410 |page=23 |edition=Eighth|url=https://plus.pearson.com/courses/7760775/products/460XBXVEVSZ/pages/a5e1959a2deb4463de59a223749df8d1d889ee91a?locale=&key=13292186923144254142024&iesCode=Xf2E24A2zH |access-date=4 February 2024}}</ref> }}

{{Short description|Fourth session of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade}} The '''Geneva Round''' was the fourth session of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) multilateral trade negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland. It started in 1955 and lasted until May 1956. Twenty-six countries took part in the round. $2.5 billion in tariffs were eliminated or reduced.<ref name="hgr">{{cite news |title=HISTORY OF GATT ROUNDS |url=https://www.joc.com/history-gatt-rounds_19931214.html |publisher=JOC.com |date=14 December 1993}}</ref><ref name="nber">{{cite web |last1=Bown|first1=Chad P.|last2=Irwin|first2=Douglas A.|title=THE GATT'S STARTING POINT: TARIFF LEVELS CIRCA 1947 |url=https://www.dartmouth.edu/~dirwin/docs/w21782.pdf |publisher=NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH |location=Cambridge, MA |date=December 2015}}</ref><ref name="ox">{{cite journal |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199586103.013.0006|year=2012|last1=Zeiler|first1=Thomas W.|title=The Expanding Mandate Of The Gatt: The First Seven Rounds|journal=The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization}}</ref>

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Category:World Trade Organization Category:General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Category:Commercial treaties Category:Treaties concluded in 1956