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International Trade Organization (Proposed)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Continuing the work of the first session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, which was held in London from October 15 to November 26, 1946, several steps looking toward the establishment of an International Trade Organization were taken during the early months of 1947. The Preparatory Committee itself met for a second time, to consider the recommendations of its Interim Drafting Committee, and the Economic and Social Council discussed several related trade and employment questions.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. The Specialized Agencies
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International Organization , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 1947 , pp. 361
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1947

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References

1 New York Times, December 1, 1946. For further discussion of the draft charter of the London conference see International Organization, I, pp. 139–140.

2 From an address by Clair Wilcox, Director of the Office of International Trade Policy in the Department of State, and head of the U. S. delegation to the London conference, at Atlantic City, January 25, 1947.

3 Report of the First Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, Document E/PC/T/33, Annexure 6, page 47.

4 United Nations Press Release EC/124, March 31, 1947.

5 Report of the First Session of the Preparatory Committee, Annexure 7, p. 47.

6 The Preparatory Committee, as set up by ECOSOC, consisted of Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoalovakia, France, India, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, USSR, United Kingdom and the United States. Syria, which now forms a customs union with Lebanon, took part in the Geneva session. The Soviet Union has not taken part in either conference, and Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, which form a customs union, have been jointly represented.

7 United Nations Press Release EC/124, March 31, 1947.

8 Ibid.