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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It                 298
GATT
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a U.N. treaty that approximately
135 countries have become signatories to. The other original participants in the treaty signed it in
1947. GATT is a multilateral treaty that promotes trade of both manufactured and agricultural
goods among its member nations. Through the treaty a forum is created for the discussion and
settlement of trade barriers, trade disputes and the conduct of the participating nations.
The participating members of GATT meet from time to time to discuss international
trade. The intent of these meetings is to remove trade barriers. The member nations have a
nondiscrimination policy that is called “most-favored-nation” status. Each member nation must
grant the same trade advantages to every nation with “most-favored-nation” status. Through
GATT import quotas, tariffs and other trade restrictions have been lessened.
GATT serves to bring the world together through trade. While international trade brings
many benefits to a nation, GATT is designed to encourage and creates a state of interdependence
among the nations. Correspondingly, world trade reduces independence. Independence is what
we fought the revolutionary war over. While globalists tell us that interdependence will reduce
war, this is the exact opposite of the truth. Interdependence may reduce a nations ability to go to
war but it drastically increases the potential for war. Wars are fought not only to get control of
people but to get control of resources. The more you make a nation dependent on the resources
of another nation, the more you increase the likelihood that they will go to war to obtain control
of those resources. This is the unchangeable condition of sinful man. In The Keys of This Blood,
Malachi Martin confirms that GATT is a key tool of the globalist; he writes:
Up to this point, GATT has been the organized method both of creating
and of strengthening—of “evolving”—the first leg of the globalist tripod. But it
has also served another function. It has been a powerful force in convincing the
world at large that interdependence among nations is as natural as—well, as
evolution; and as essential to our wellbeing as the winds that circle our common
home.
Largely on the basis of GATT successes, in fact, it is now generally
understood and accepted that any nation’s fitness to survive—and certainly its
strength to flourish—requires that it engage vigorously in trade with other
nations.
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The GATT 1994 agreement is a document consisting of 22,000 pages
of information,
tariff schedules, rules and regulations; and an incredible 650 pages of enabling legislation. The
agreement called for the setting up of the World Trade Organization (WTO). In January 1995 the
WTO was established in order to administer the provisions of the 1994 GATT agreement. The
GATT agreement is a treaty that requires a two-thirds vote of the House and Senate for approval.
The 1994 lame duck congress ratified GATT as a trade agreement that requires a simple majority
vote rather than a two-thirds as required by a treaty. The bipartisan support for GATT was led by
Republicans Bob Dole (Senate Majority leader) and Newt Gingrich (Speaker of the House and
CFR member), and by conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the American
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