ABSTRACT
The central aim of the GATT was to reduce the protection of domestic industries to only one measure, the tariff, and then to negotiate the gradual reduction in tariffs. Mechanisms to achieve this included the following:
Restoration of most-favoured nation treatment
Each country agreed to grant one another treatment at least as favourable as they would grant any other country. That is, countries were to apply general treatment to the imports and exports of all other Contracting Parties.
National treatment
