Talk:Most favoured nation

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Concerning the spelling: "most favoured nation" as opposed to "favored": It is the official spelling of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations , and the usual spelling in international agreements. -Iwaki 16:10, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

See GATT (The General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade), PART I,

Article I: General Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment -202.32.53.44 03:47, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, I came here to protest it. Looks like I'm wrong. --YixilTesiphon 01:46, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

concerning the spelling: 'favored' is american spelling, 'favoured' is british english. Same with labour, labor etc etc In the book 'Global Transformations' by David Held et al, they use the British spelling. conclusion: i think it is whatever you'd like it to be! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.81.188.101 (talk • contribs).

Well, "favoured" is in fact the spelling used by the WTO agreements, see here. As it is the spelling version originally used in this article (and international trade agreements generally use English spelling), I think we should retain it. Sandstein 04:46, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I think the two pages should be merged since in economic texts and WTO reports, the concept of the most-favoured-nation treatment is often reffered to as the most-favoured-nation and even more often by the acronym MTN (see a report of the OECD and the WTO on the Uruguay Round Agreements.Fonzpopo 09:14, 13 September 2006 (UTC)