Slide 7
The Dillon Round, Geneva, 1960-61
Move on a decade, skip one round. By the time they reached their fifth
tariff negotiation, GATT signatories decided to give the talks a name.
The negotiations launched in Geneva on 1 September 1960 were to become
known as the Dillon Round, after C Douglas Dillon, US undersecretary of
state under President Eisenhower, and Treasury Secretary under President
Kennedy (who took office during the round in January 1961). By then the
European Community had been set up and was beginning to match the United
States' economic clout.
This photo shows participants at the inaugural meeting.
(The fourth round had been held in Geneva in 1956.)
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