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APPENDIX I
CONFIDENTIAL
GATT DECLARATIONS
(a) UK Declaration
I am
instructed by Her Majesty's Principle 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
territory in respect of which the United Kingdom has
separate
accepted
external
customs
in full autonomy
the conduct
the Agreement,
of possesses
its
commercial relations and of the other matters provided for in the Agreement. In accordance with the said article, Hong Kong will, with
if i t so wishes be deemed
effect from the date of this communication,
be a contracting party to the Agreement.
to
(b) Hong Kong Declaration
I
am instructed to refer
Agreement to Article XXVI (V) (c) of the General
on Tariffs and
and Trade, and to the communication which the United Kingdom mission in Geneva has today addressed to the Director General, and to
confirm that
to Hong Kong wishes
be deemed
the contracting party a
Agreement.
(c) PRC Declaration
instructed by
•
•
to
to
I am
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 the Government of
United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland on
on the question of Hong Kong, signed in Beijing on 19 December 1984, and the communications which the United Kingdom mission in Geneva has today addressed to the Director General.
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 to be
separate customs a
territory and to possess
of the conduct
s ame
as
at
present
in
its
In
the
external
autonomy degree of
commercial relations and of all other matters provided for in the Agreement. The Government of the People's Republic of China considers that these arrangements will not alter the status of the territory in the
GATT.
CONFIDENTIAL