Transition to the generalized systems of preferences: a change of policy in international cooperation

Abstract

After the end of World War II, the international cooperation increased notoriously, a scenario thatpropitiated the boom of unilateral preferential tariffs through a generalized system of preferences(GSP), understood as another mechanism for promoting the social and economic development. So,this article performs a descriptive study on the behaviour of these type of international treaties basedon databases of the regional commercial agreements of the World Trade Organization. This articleconcludes that the GSP, conceded to the least developed countries, seem to be extinguishing giventhe new interest of the developed countries currently signing free trade agreements (FTA) for endingcertain SGP, additionally because the FTA allows the creation of additional normative dispositionsapart from the WTO.