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After we considered the provisions in the Charter rel to the adherence of separate customs territories, we could that the conditions are different from what they should adherence to the General Agreement
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In the Charter there is nothing to prevent separate territories from adhering to the Charter on the same condit the other States, but when we considered the General A found that the separate customs territories would not have negotiated here in Geneva. Therefore, if they were to adh
a kind of unilateral way to the General Agreement they wousta acquire the benefits of the concessions made here without
negotiation.
Therefore the Sub-committee propose to delete sub-para (b) of Paragraph 3 of Article XXIV and replace it by a provisi which appears at the end of Article XXXI, now proposed Articl XXXIII, and which would read as follows: the first words
remain as in Article XXXI
"A Government not party, to this and the words added are: "or. a Government a
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on behalf of a separate customs territory"; from there proposed by the United Kingdom Delegation, which have been to, would be inserted: "possessing full autonomy in the its external commercial relations and of the other matters for by this Agreement."
Then the paragraph goes on as previously written: this Agreement on its own benalf or on behalf of the n terms to be agreed between such Government and the cont arties
The mechanism which is provided for here will mea eparate customs territories which will not have negotiate eneva will not be, able to become Members of the club;
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