Founding of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benelux" id="mw9g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Benelux">Benelux</a> Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community" id="mw9w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="European Economic Community">European Economic Community</a>.<sup about="#mwt68" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_3#cite_note-12" id="mw-A" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw-Q">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt65" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFUnited_States._Bureau_of_Foreign_Commerce1959">United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1959). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BUsfAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=RA24-PA8" id="mwBs0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBs4">World Trade Information Service</i></a>. U.S. Government Printing Office. p.<span id="mwBs8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>24.</cite><span about="#mwt65" class="Z3988" id="mwBtA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=World+Trade+Information+Service&amp;rft.pages=24&amp;rft.pub=U.S.+Government+Printing+Office&amp;rft.date=1959&amp;rft.au=United+States.+Bureau+of+Foreign+Commerce&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DBUsfAQAAMAAJ%26pg%3DRA24-PA8&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+3"></span></span>