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* Proposals for the establishment of an International Trade Organization was forward by delegates from fifty-six countries in November, 1947 in Havana, Cuba.

* Proposals for the establishment of an International Trade Organization was forward by delegates from fifty-six countries in November, 1947 in Havana, Cuba.

* In 1982, a failed meeting of the GATT resulted in the preliminary foundation of a new trade organization. Thus, the GATT slowly built up its scope, and 7 years later it had effectively become the WTO. The process was slow, and the situation often quite bleak.<ref>[http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/fact5_e.htm WTO.org]</ref> During the early 1980s, the world powers did not find GATT’s principles as applicable to the realities as they used to find them in the 1940s.<ref>[http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/fact4_e.htm The GATT years: from Havana to Marrakesh]</ref>

* In 1982, a failed meeting of the GATT resulted in the preliminary foundation of a new trade organization; this was the beginning of the '''Uruguay Round'''. Thus, the GATT slowly built up its scope, and 7 years later it had effectively become the WTO. The process was slow, and the situation often quite bleak.<ref>[http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/fact5_e.htm WTO.org]</ref> During the early 1980s, the world powers did not find GATT’s principles as applicable to the realities as they used to find them in the 1940s.<ref>[http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/fact4_e.htm The GATT years: from Havana to Marrakesh]</ref>

* In 1986, the GATT members gradually accepted the negotiating program that enclosed almost all the outstanding issues of the trade policy.

* In 1986, the GATT members gradually accepted the negotiating program that enclosed almost all the outstanding issues of the trade policy.