The Oslo Agreements or Convention of Economic Rapprochement of 22 December 1930 were an economic agreement between the countries which had already agreed upon the Dutch-Scandinavian Economic Pact

Dutch-Scandinavian Economic Pact

The Dutch-Scandinavian Economic Pact of 30 September 1930 was an economic agreement between the governments of the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The agreement was designed to coordinate tariff policies and promote trade. The pact was a reaction on the growing economic crisis of the early...

 (Netherlands

Netherlands

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, Denmark

Denmark

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, Norway

Norway

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, and Sweden

Sweden

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) earlier that year and the countries of the BLEU

Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union

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, Belgium

Belgium

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 and Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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. Finland

Finland

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 would join the agreement in 1933.

The countries promised not to raise tariffs between them without first notifying and consulting the other signatory powers. As with the Dutch-Scandinavian Economic Pact

Dutch-Scandinavian Economic Pact

The Dutch-Scandinavian Economic Pact of 30 September 1930 was an economic agreement between the governments of the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The agreement was designed to coordinate tariff policies and promote trade. The pact was a reaction on the growing economic crisis of the early...

 the Oslo Agreements were one of the regional responses to the Great Depression

Great Depression

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.

Source

• Nordic Trade Policy in the 1930s
• Declaration of 1 July 1938 (end of the agreement)
• Barry Eichengreena and Douglas A. Irwin, Trade blocs, currency blocs and the reorientation of world trade in the 1930s, Journal of International Economics , Volume 38, Issues 1-2, February 1995, Pages 1–24
• M. Alice Matthews, Chronicle of International Events, The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Apr., 1931), pp. 348-359
• Ger van Roon, Great Britain and the Oslo States, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Oct., 1989), pp. 657-664