Trade Agreements/Preferential Duty Programs

What does the phrase "normal trade relations" mean?

Formerly referred to as most favored nation status, normal trade relations is a designation of a non-discriminatory trade policy commitment on the part of one country to extend to another country the lowest tariff rates it applies to any other country. All contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) undertake to apply such treatment to one another under Article I of the treaty.

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