ANNEX A
DECLARATIONS
Following are the texts of the UK, Hong Kong, and PRC
Declarations:
(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,
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. In accordance with the said article, Hong Kong will, with effect from the date of this communication, if it so wishes be deemed to be a contracting party to the Agreement.
(b) Hong Kong Declaration
I am instructed to refer to Article XXVI (V) (c) of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and to the communication which the United Kingdom mission in Geneva has today addressed to the Director General, and to confirm that Hong Kong wishes to be deemed a contracting party
party to the Agreement.
(c) PRC Declaration
,
I am instructed by
to refer to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the Agreement)
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 mission in Geneva has 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 to be a separate customs territory and to possess the same degree of autonomy as at present in the conduct
its of
external 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 status of the territory in the GATT.
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