E/PC/T/TAG/A
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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