But, with other countries having enjoyed two decades of export-led growth as a result of pegging their currencies to the dollar, there was a reluctance to mess with success. While the IMF, in a high-profile report on exchange rates in mid-1970, endorsed the principle of greater flexibility, it offered no new ideas for getting countries to move in this direction and proposed no new sanctions against countries that resisted.
但另外一些出口导向型经济体都已在紧盯美元的情况下享受了20年的好时光，谁也不愿意搅乱了大好局面。虽然国际货币基金组织在1970年中期发布了一份关于汇率问题的高级别报告，并承诺实施更高汇率灵活性的相关原则，但它既未提出任何新理念去吸引各国加入，也未对那些拒绝加入的国家制定任何新的制裁方案。结果国际贸易失衡状况持续恶化，直到该系统在1971-1973年间轰然倒塌。