Bodies of Foreign Affairs and Trade
US Foreign Affairs and Trade Revolves Around the WTO & NAFTA. Globalism Means the Takeover of Countries by Corporations & These Organizations Serve the NWO Agenda.
Foreign affairs and trade are linked. There are, or have been, three specific trade treaties that the United States has been a part of that impacted our ability to trade.
Treaties between nations are often a delicate balance between diplomacy and greed.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was one of the first global trade treaties having been created in 1947 following the end of World War II and lasted until 1994 when it was replaced by the much stronger and stringent World Trade Organization.
The World Trade Organization is a global organization that oversees and promotes free trade among its more than 150 members after it was created in 1994 by Bill Clinton and other world leaders.
The North American Free Trade Agreement is a much smaller treaty than the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization but has had a massive effect on the United States economy along with the two other member nations, Canada and Mexico.
Foreign Affairs and Our Trade: GATT
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade came about after the failure of the International Trade Organization which never quite came to be.
The treaty and organization came to be in 1947, just two years after the creation of the United Nations, and lasted until 1994 when it was replaced by the creation of the much more powerful World Trade Organization.
Historians separate the lifespan of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade into three sections.
The first section was from its inception to 1959 when it dealt with what commodities would be included in the agreement and the freezing of international tariffs.
The second section was between 1959 and 1979 during which time the organization was concerned with lowering all tariffs.
The third section was from 1986 to 1994 saw the extension of trade to areas such as intellectual property and various services as well as the money trade.
Foreign Affairs and Trade: WTO
The World Trade Organization replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1994.
After the job was done by the old organization, the World Trade Organization focused on expanding its membership which is currently 153 nations, just 39 less members than the United Nations, and promoting free trade in developing nations.
The World Trade Organizations also oversees all foreign affairs and trade of its members to ensure that all trade treaties and all national policies are in accordance with the guidelines of the treaty.
The governing body of the World Trade Organization is the Ministerial Conference which meets in two year intervals and the General Council which does the everyday duties.
Foreign Affairs and Trade: NAFTA
An unrelated treaty, though still a major factor in United States foreign affairs and trade is the North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico and was one of the last acts by George H. W. Bush in December of 1992.
The treaty was a risky and controversial one and did not get ratified by the House of Representatives until November of 1993 when it voted to approve the treaty by a 234 to 200 vote with 132 Republicans and 102 Democrats supporting the treaty.
It was then signed by President Bill Clinton.
The purpose of the treaty is to help Mexico improve its economy while opening up many more opportunities for American, Canadian, and Mexican businesses.
All of these organizations share a darker common purpose of centralizing commerce, in the name of allowing giant corporations to assume control of all commerce between nations.
This allows the wealth of those sovereign economies to be stolen by elites.