...inserted, at American insistence, a Clause 7 committing the parties, and other like-minded countries, to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce and the reduction of tariff and other trade barriers in the post-war world. This commitment, together with...

...allies provided generous emergency assistance in return for commitments from recipient states to seek 'the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce [and] . . . the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers'. In the post-war years many states were reluctant...

...incurred obligations, at a time when American aid was vital to us, to make provision for agreed action "to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory...the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers." Obituaries and Final Assessments 1 89 While the English critics were inclined to regard the monetary...

...discrimination would be tackled, along with the reduction of tariff and other trade barriers, with a view to "the expansion, by appropriate international and...production, employment, and the exchange and consumption of goods."29 The United Kingdom had bowed but not caved in to the US vision, keeping its own counsel for...

...and Britain in 1942 stated that the US, the UK and other allies would begin discussion during the war "directed to the expansion, by appropriate international...domestic measures, of production, employment, and exchange and consumption of goods" and "to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment...

...'Mutual Aid in the Prosecution of the War against Aggression'. Its seventh article pledged signatories to the expansion, by appropriate international and...foundations of the liberty and welfare of all peoples; and the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce, and ... the...

...American draft of Article 7 called upon the United States and Great Britain to cooperate in securing "the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce" and to work together for "the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers." The American draft also provided...

...entitled to "consideration" from Britain in return for lend-lease aid. This took the form of a commitment to "the elimination of all forms of discriminatory...commerce, and to the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers."14 In order to make progress toward meeting this obligation, the British Treasury adopted...

...still committed Britain to 'agreed action', albeit 'in the light of governing economic conditions', to 'the elimination of all forms of discriminatory...the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers'. Talks were to begin 'at an early convenient date' on how to achieve an expansion of production, employment,...

...burden commerce between the two countries To that end. they shall include provision for agreed action... to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory...reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers..." (Edward Stettinius, Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory, pp. 335-43; William McNeill. America, Britain,...