The GATT negotiations of 1986–91 with 92 participant countries. The principal features of this round were an attempt to reduce the protectionism of developed countries, without full reciprocity from less developed countries, and to reduce US and...

The World Trade Organization conducts negotiations through what are called rounds. The Uruguay Round commenced in September 1986 and continued until April 1994. The Round, based on the GATT ministerial meeting in Geneva (1982), was launched in Punta del...