一、关贸总协定产生的历史背景
二战结束之初，为了避免各国推行贸易保护主义而影响世界经济的发展，在美国的倡议下，由23个国家于1947年10月30日在日内瓦签定了“关税与贸易总协定”。
它是关于调整缔约国对外贸易和国际经济贸易关系方面的相互权利、义务的国际多边协定。
二、总协定的宗旨和作用
1、宗旨：提高各缔约国的国民生活水平、保证充分就业、保证实际收入和有效需求的巨大持续增长，扩大世界资源的充分利用以及发展商品生产与交换。
2、作用：（1）总协定为各成员国规范了一套处理它们之间贸易关系的原则及规章；（2）为解决各成员国在相互的贸易关系中所产生的矛盾和纠纷提供了场所；（3）为成员国举行关税减让谈判提供了可能和方针；（4）为发展中国家和发达国家创造了贸易上的对话条件。
三、关贸总协定产生的意义及其局限
关于国际贸易的一些背景资料，需要翻译，请不要用翻译软件！
有可供交换的剩余产品，在各自独立为政的社会实体之间进行的产品交换。
国际贸易（International Trade）也称通商，是指跨越国境的货品和服务交易，一般由进口贸易和出口贸易所组成，因此也可称之为进出口贸易。国际贸易也叫世界贸易。进出口贸易可以调节国内生产要素的利用率，改善国际间的供求关系，调整经济结构，增加财政收入等。
国际贸易专业属于经济学学科范畴，主要以经济学理论为依托，包括微观经济学、宏观经济学、国际经济学、计量经济学、世界经济学概论、政治经济学等。
扩展资料：
随着计算机技术的不断发展，世界经济也逐渐由工业经济（英文表述方式：Directindustry，Industry Economy）转变成为信息经济，使得国际间逐渐产生了信息产品贸易。
与此同时，电子商务也在全球范围内蓬勃兴起，已经成为推动世界经济快速增长的主要原动力，电子商务的快速发展使得国际贸易也在逐渐走向信息化的方向，为国际贸易的可持续发展创造了有利的条件。
现今电子商务已经成为了一种全新的商业模式，其主要运用互联网来作为载体，使得各行各业能够紧密的联系在一起，实现虚拟的交易与合作，从而产生新的业务和收入。电子商务成一种新的业务转换，企业利用互联网的作用，来达到降低成本、提高效率的目的，使得企业的竞争力增强。
百度百科-国际贸易
The international trade is a creation under the certain history condition and develop.Two basic conditions which become international trade are:
(1)The development of social productivity;
(2)The formation of nation.
The development of social productivity produces to used for a switching surplus merchandise, these surplus merchandises exchange between the state-to-state, produced international trade.
The international goods trade belongs to merchandise commutation scope, with domestic trade on the property combine all together, but because it is at the different nation or the region carry on, so compare with domestic trade to have a following characteristics:
1.the international goods trade want to involve difference and conflict that different nation or region probably exist in the policy measure, law system, and the language culture, social custom etc. bring of difference, the problem involve far compares domestic trade complications.
2.the international goods trade of bargain amount and amount of money be generally more big, conveyance distance farther, implement time longer, so trade both parties undertake of the risk far wants to be greatly than the domestic trade.
3.the international goods trade is easily subjected to bargain both parties place nation of politics, economy change, bilateral relation and international situation variety etc. conditional influence.
4.in addition to trading both parties, international goods trade also cooperation that need to be involved sections, such as conveyance and insurance, bank, company's check, maritime customs...etc., match, process compare the domestic trade want to be complicated of many.
It mainly is to carry on international trade and domestic trade some contrasts here.International trade and domestic trade since exist intercommunity, and then is very greatly distinct, the international trade is more more complicated than domestic trade.
International trade history:
1, from formality, Industrial Revolution period of international trade with direct export goods is lord, but two post-war directly invest in the foreign country main current;
2, from the contents, the period international trade of the Industrial Revolution has occasionally, pure, the unilateral rent service output or the merchandise output, the trade involve of the merchandise mostly industrial finished product and entry-level raw material.Two post-war, the international trade form is diverse and the merchandise layer be abundant and cover three greatest industries;
3, from the organization, the Industrial Revolution is period to lack International Trade Organization and export mostly amateur by chance, few exclusively be engaged in the company of trade conversion, divide the work not thin.Two post-war, established WTO etc. coordination all countries trade, establishment trade principle, and the multinational company basic Long break international trade and divide the work very thin;
4, from the scope, the period international trade of the Industrial Revolution usually limits at an of colony and suzerain state, capitalism nation, and concerns noodles narrow.(point people)Two post-war, the whole world is subjected to a spread, have no which nation place oneself at the international trade outside;
5, from the consciousness appearance, Industrial Revolution the period mercantile system be more widely accepted and the turn of capitalism nation shares colony;Two post-war, although once appeared Cold War the trade of the two greatest camps with each other not contacts, basic carry out free trade.