About two-thirds of the reduction in tariffs in the past 20 years comes from:

A. reforms by national governments changing their own policies or making agreements with each other.
B. the work of the WTO, World Trade Organization.
C. specific funding directed at encouraging trade through subsidies by the World Bank.
D. None of these statements is true.


A. reforms by national governments changing their own policies or making agreements with each other.

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