{{Infobox recurring event |name = Tokyo Round |logo = |logo_caption = |logo_size = |image = |image_size = |caption = |status = Complete |genre = Trade Round |begins = September 12, 1973 |ends = April, 1979 |venue = |location = Tokyo |country = Japan |prev = Kennedy Round |next = Uruguay Round |participants = 102 <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|1980 GATT treaty}} The '''Tokyo Round''' was a multi-year multilateral trade negotiation (MTN) between the 102 states which were parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The negotiations resulted in reduced tariffs and established new regulations aimed at controlling the proliferation of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and voluntary export restrictions. The aim was further to harmonise government policies. Concessions were made on $19 billion worth of trade, and were scheduled to enter effect over eight years from 1980. The Tokyo Round concluded in April 1979.<ref name="ee">{{cite journal |doi=10.2307/1058704|jstor=1058704|title=Economic Effects of the Tokyo Round|journal=Southern Economic Journal|volume=49|issue=3|pages=605|year=1983|last1=Deardorff|first1=Alan V.|last2=Stern|first2=Robert M.}}</ref>
The Tokyo Round was held to be "the most comprehensive of all the seven rounds of negotiations held within the GATT since its founding in 1948". One novelty was that it covered bovine meat and dairy products. The agricultural sector was a focus. Developing countries were given more say in this round than had been the case in past MTNs.<ref name="iep">{{cite book |doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-444280-1.50026-4|chapter=The Tokyo Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1973–79)|title=International Economics Policies and their Theoretical Foundations|pages=413–439|year=1982|isbn=9780124442801|last1=Letiche|first1=John M.}}</ref>
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Category:World Trade Organization Category:General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Category:Commercial treaties Category:Treaties concluded in 1980