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摘要

SUPERLATIVES surrounded the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) when it was signed on October 30th 1947. A press release heralded it as "the most far-reaching negotiationls] ever undertaken in the history of world trade." The Economist grumbled it was "one of the longest and most complicated public documents ever issued-and one of the hardest to comprehend." The Daily Express, a British newspaper, growled: "The big bad bargain is sealed."