| | IISD - Trade and Sustainable Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The Agreement was originally part of a draft charter for an International Trade Organization, the third leg of the Bretton-Woods post-war order, along with the IMF and the World Bank. |
 | | While the GATT itself, a large list of negotiated trade concessions and rules of conduct, entered into force in January 1948 (as GATT 1947), the rest of the Havana Charter was never ratified, primarily because of opposition in the U.S. Congress. |
 | | Another opportunity for promoting sustainable development via the GATT is in the area of agriculture, where reduced subsidies (currently provided mostly by the U.S. and the E.U.) for agricultural products would allow for increased production in the developing countries, and possibly reduce overall use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. |
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