1ST
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON
TARIFFS AND TRADE
RESTRICTED
L/5823
5 July 1985
Limited Distribution
APPLICATION OF THE GENERAL AGREEMENT
TO NEWLY-INDEPENDENT STATES
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On 11 November 1967 the Recommendation (15S/64) that contracting parties should continue to acad apply de facto the General Agreement in their relations with each territory which acquired full autonomy in the conduct of its external commercial relations and in respect of which a contracting party had accepted the Agreement, provided such territories continued to apply de facto the Agreement to its trade with the contracting parties. Recommendation does not have a time-limit. The Director-General is requested to submit a report on its application after three years. Earlier reports have been submitted to the Council in November 1970 (L/3457), November 1973 (L/3948), October 1976 (L/4427), October 1979 (L/4846 and Add.1) and July 1982 (L/5345).
The Recommendation is at present applicable in respect of the following countries:
Kampuchea
Mali
Algeria
Botswana Lesotho
Yemen, Democratic · Swaziland
Equatorial Guinea
Tonga
Fiji
Bahrain
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Bahamas
Grenada
Guinea-Bissau
Mozambique
Cape Verde
Sao Tomé and Principe
Papua New Guinea
Angola
The
Date of independence
9 November 1953
20 June 1960
3 July 1962
30 September 1966
4 October 1966
30 November 1967
6 September 1968
12 October 1968 5 June 1970
10 October 1970 16 August 1971 3 September 1971
1 December 1971
10 July 1973
7 February 1974
10 September 1974
25 June 1975 5 July 1975
12 July 1975
16 September 1975 11 November 1975
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See Secretariat Note on de facto application of the General Agreement (C/130).
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