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90TH  CONGRESS   HOUSE   OF  REPRESENTATIVES I DOCUMENT
  1st Session                                        No. 184





    GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE




                       MESSAGE
                             FSOM

 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                         TRANSMITTING

THE  MULTILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENT. SIGNED IN GENEVA
                        ON JUNE  30, 1967



NOVEMBER 27, 1967.-Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered
               to be printed, with accompanying papers


To the Congress of the United States:
  I am pleased to transmit to the Congress, pursuant to Section 226
of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, a copy of the multilateral trade
agreement signed in Geneva on June 30,1967.
  The agreement brings to a successful conclusion what we all know
as the Kennedy Round  of trade negotiations. It fulfills the purposes
and high hopes of the Trade Expansion Act passed by the Congress
in 1962.
  The  documents contain a mass of detail. On paper those details
appear dry and technical. In reality they represent new factories,
more jobs, lower prices to consumers, and higher incomes for American
workers and for our trading partners throughout the' world.
  These decisions recorded in these documents rest on solid experience.
The remarkable post-war expansion of international trade brought
strength and growth to the free world economy. It enriched the lives
of people everywhere-and thus it served the cause of peace. We and
our trading partners had an enormous stake in the further removal
of trade barriers. Trade expansion would continue to benefit us all-
the more so because of our growing prosperity. Protectionism and


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