TNAG-1491-FCO40-2049-Future-of-Hong-Kong-General-Agreement-on-Tariffs-and-Trade-(-1986 — Page 148

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After we considered the provisions in the Charter

to the adherence of separate customs territories, we could

that the conditions are different from what they should

edherence to the General Agreement

In the Charter there is nothing to prevent separat

territories from adhering to the Charter on the same com

the other States, but when we considered the General A

found that the separate customs territories would not hav

flated here in Geneva. Therefore, if they were to

a kind of unilateral way to the General Agreement they woul

acquire the benefits of the concessions made here without

negotiation.

Therefore the Sub-committes propose to delete sub-pe

(b) of Paragraph 3 of Article XXIV and replace it by a pro

which appears at the end of Article XXXI, now proposed Art

XXXIII, and which would read as follows: the first words gu

remain as in Article XXXI - thil

Agreement

"A Government not party to

and the words added are: "or a Governmen

on behalf of a separate customs territory"; from there

roposed by the United Kingdom Delegation, which have bee

, would be inserted: "possessing full autonomy in the

ts external commercial relations end of the other matter!

or by this Agreement."

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greement on its own benalf or

be agreed between such Government and the

The mechanism which is provided for here will mean

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