Developing Countries in the GATT Legal System

Part I. A History of the Legal Relationship: 1. Post-war negotiations on trade liberalization; 2. First decade of the GATT: 1948-57; 3. Demands for a new legal relationship: 1958-63; 4. Defining the new relationship: 1964-71; 5. Testing the new relationship: 1972-9; 6. Developments in the 1980s: form without substance; Part II. A Legal Critique of the GATT's Current Policy: 7. Basic elements of the legal criticism; 8. Separating legal and economic issues; 9. Impact of GATT legal policy on internal decision-making; 10. Impact on decisions in other governments: non-reciprocity; 11. Impact on decisions in other governments: preferences; 12. First steps towards a better legal policy.