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HONG KONG AND THE GATT : PROPOSED CONTRACTING PARTY STATUS :

ARTICLE XXVI (v) (~)

DRAFT DECLARATIONS TO THE GATT

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(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 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, and that it may with

with effect

from the date of this communication

contracting party to the Agreement.'

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be

de emed to be a

(B)

HONG KONG DECLARATION

" I am instructed to refer to Article

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and Hong Kong wishes to be deemed to be a contracting party to the Agreement".

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to

(v) (c) of the

confirm that

(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 t he communication which t he United Kingdom Mission in Geneva has today addressed to the Director

General.

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