“关稅及貿易总协定”締約国从5月16日至21日在日內瓦举行了部长級会議,討論美国总統肯尼迪根据美国“扩大貿易法”提出的“多边相互降低关稅計划”。在这次会議上,美国同以法国、西德为首的共同市場,由于尖銳的利害冲突,在如何减稅、减多少稅、减誰的稅等問題上爆发了激烈的爭吵。双方互提“建议”和“反建議”,針鋒相对,僵持不下,使会议数度瀕于垮台。在最后勉强达成的一 The “General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade” states parties held a ministerial meeting in Geneva from May 16th to 21st to discuss the “multilateral mutual reduction tariff plan” proposed by US President Kennedy in accordance with the US “Extended Trade Law”. At this meeting, the United States, together with the common market headed by France and West Germany, broke out with fierce quarrels on how to cut taxes, cut taxes, and cut taxes because of sharp conflicts of interest. Both sides put forward “recommendations” and “counter-recommendations” to each other, tit-for-tat, and the stalemate has not been stagnated. This has caused the meeting to fall for several times. At the end of the last one