December 15, 1993 (���� winter of early three), the GATT Uruguay Round negotiations to reach a comprehensive agreement.

1993 12 15, the last meeting of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Uruguay Round negotiations and finally ends at the Geneva International Conference Centre. April 15, 1994 signed the final document of the Uruguay Round Agreement on the establishment of the WTO agreement, China Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Department, representatives of over 100 countries and regions attended the GATT Ministerial Conference in Marrakech, Morocco Vice Minister Gu Yongjiang signing of the document on behalf of the Chinese government officially ended, bringing the Uruguay Round negotiations. The Uruguay Round of negotiations to finalize an agreement around the world sighed with relief. It is estimated that the global volume of trade will increase, and this is by far the most complex, the most massive trade negotiations. The Uruguay Round negotiations, but at the same time, it was noted that due to differences of Europe and the United States in a "punctuation" of GATT almost have been made for six years come to naught.
Looking back at the history of the GATT development, people will find that it is an international supplier of war history.
after the world economic crisis of the 1930s, the emergence of Keynesian economics, that free competition in a state of anarchy does not naturally lead to the healthy development of economic and trade. Keynes's prescription, the government should intervene. In a country can be done. However, a major economic power in the world market is carved up without the international WTO, the world trade is in a state of anarchy. Some people will think of the establishment of a coordinated international trade organizations. After World War II, this desire more strongly. In July 1944, the United States and Britain and other 44 countries convened in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA, decided to set up the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank). The U.S. government wanted to set up a specialized agency dealing with international trade and tariff, to facilitate the implementation of the policy of free trade in the world. (Lsjt.org)
United States, with its economic strength in January 1945, the expansion of world trade and employment programs, and its core is the reduction of tariffs and the elimination of all barriers to trade, the removal of quantitative restrictions and exchange controls; and proposed the resumption of the multilateral free trade based on two major principles of MFN and national treatment. This program has clearly recommended the establishment of the International Trade Organization. In February 1946, the U.S. government has changed the originally envisaged, based on the above principles program intends to convene the meeting of the International Trade and Employment on the draft Charter of the International Trade Organization ", put forward by the United Nations to convene an international Conference on Trade and Employment. The United Nations set up a Preparatory Committee held several meetings, on the occasion of the second Preparatory Committee in Geneva in April to October 1947, the negotiation process naturally formed by the 23 participating countries signed a tariff GATS. This agreement has been as the effective since the GATT was established.