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incorporace utme Genera's commente (their whos 2200221)
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TRADE, THAT HONG KONG, BEING A SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITORY IN
RESPECT OF WHICH THE UNITED KINGDOM HAS ACCEPTED THE AGREEMENT,
POSSESSES FULL AUTONOMY IN THE CONDUCT OF ITS EXTERNAL COMMERCIAL
RELATIONS AND OF THE OTHER MATTERS PROVIDED FOR IN THE AGREEMENT.
with
It follows that IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAID ARTICLE, HONG KONG MAT, WITH EFFECT
FROM THE DATE OF THIS COMMUNICATION,
CONTRACTING PARTY TO THE AGREEMENT.
(B) HONG KONG DECLARATION
fur semishe
BE DEEMED TO BE A
'I AM INSTRUCTED TO REFER TO ARTICLE XXVI (V)(C) QF THE GENERAL
to The Communication which the Umbed AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE, AND TO CONFIRM THAT HONG KONG
WISHES TO BE DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACTING PARTY TO THE AGREEMENT'
(C) PRC DECLARATION
•
'I AM INSTRUCTED BY
TO REFER TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON
TARIFFS AND TRADE (THE AGREEMENT), TO THE JOINT DECLARATION OF
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN
IRELAND ON THE QUESTION OF HONG KONG, SIGNED IN PEKING ON 19
DECEMBER 1984, AND TO THE COMMUNICATIONS WHICH THE UNITED KINGDOM
MAS MISSION IN GENEVA HAL TODAY ADDRESSED TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE JOINT DECLARATION HONG KONG WILL, ON
1 JULY 1997, BECOME A SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, AND WILL CONTINUE OPEN SQUARE
BRACKETS TO POSSESS THE SAME DEGREE OF AUTONOMY
AS AT PRESENT IN THE CONDUCT OF
meden
misszen in
Genera has today
addressed to the
Director General
and
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to be a separate customs Territory and to
ITS EXTERNAL COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND OF ALL THE OTHER MATTERS
PROVIDED FOR IN THE AGREEMENT.CLOSE SQUARE BRACKETS OPEN SQUARE
BRACKETS BEGIN UNDERLINING OR OTHER AGREED FORMULA CLUSE SQUARE
BRACKETS END UNDERLINING. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S
The these arrangements will not alter REPUBLIC OF CHINA ACCORDINGLY CONSIDERS THAT THE HONG KONG status of the Territory SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA in The GATT SHOULD, WHEN ESTABLISHED, CONTINUE TO BE DEEMED TO BE A
CONTRACTING PARTY TO THE AGREEMENT'.
HOWE LIMITED
HKD FED
COPIES TO:
HKGD- LONDON
MR FIFOOT
Miss WILMHURST
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Me WILSON
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