GATT bridges the gap

Global economics will be tremendously affected by the Uruguay round of GATT talks, with immense change occurring in the next five to 10 years. Some 117 nations agree that the GATT's impact on the world economy will mainly focus on tariffs, textiles and apparel, agriculture, dumping, services, intellectual property, audio-visual services and subsidies. Several sectors do not expect any short-term benefits, though everybody agrees that the GATT will prop up the sagging world economy.
It's August 1947. Harry Truman is in the White House. Big band swing shares radio space with pre rock-n-roll. Baby boomers, who would later have a tremendous impact on statistics [...]