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HONG KONG AND THE GATT :
PROPOSED CONTRACTING PARTY STATUS :
ARTICLE XXVI (v)(c)
DRAFT DECLARATIONS TO THE GATT
(A) UK DECLARATION
"I am instructed by Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State
for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to declare, in accordance
with Article XXVI (v)(c) of the general Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade, that Hong Kong, being a customs territory in
respect of which the United Kingdom
Agreement, possesses full autonomy in
external commercial relations and of
provided for in
the agreement, and that
the date of this communication
contracting party to the Agreement.'
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has accepted the
conduct of its
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(B) HONG KONG DECLARATION
"I
am instructed to refer to Article XXVI
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and to
Hong Kong wishes
Agreement".
to
(v) (c) of the
confir rm that
be deemed to be a contracting party to
the
(C) PRC DECLARATION
аш instructed by
"I
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
Kingdom Mission in Geneva has
General.
communication which the United
today addressed to the Director
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