ABSTRACT
General Agreement on Tariffs and trade's Contracting Parties began to be conscious of the problems that the permanent nature of an agreement such as the Multifibres Arrangement represented both for the objective of liberalization. A study was then commissioned on textiles trade and the role of the MFA and a Working Group was formed which presented its findings in 1985. On the basis of the minimums established in 1989, economic analysts proceeded to formulate a series of models related to the integration of international textiles trade by virtue of the interests of one or another state which would later be presented as proposals to the negotiating group. In the Council of Ministers meeting held on the 24th April 1989 three basic objectives were fixed with respect to textiles: the general opening of "all" markets of the states participating in the negotiations, equal conditions as regards competition and a transitory safeguard mechanism adapted to textile trade.
