Multilateralismo precursor

os acordos açucareiros 1864-1902

Abstract

Precursory Multilateralism: the sugar agreements 1864-1902 This paper examines the negotiations leading to the Brussels Convention of 1902, for the abolition of sugar export subsidies, showing how negotiating practices for multilateral commodity agreements originated there. Encompassing diverse tax systems, these negotiations initiated a pluri-national harmonization process for taxation criteria and regulations, which forced changes to national statutes. They also imposed new forms of negotiation and economic relations.

When war broke out in 1914, undoing agreements and inaugurating a new era of strict government control of economic activities, multilateralism was already established as a conceptual alternative and a practical possibility.