E/PC/T/TACA
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 separa
territories from adhering to the Charter on the same.
the other States, but when we considered the General
found that the separate customs territories would not
negotiated here in Geneva. Therefore, if they were
a kind of unilateral way to the General Agreement they youth
aoquire the benefits of the concessions made here witho
negotiation.
Therefore the Sub-committes propose to delete sub-pa
(b) of Paragraph 3 of Article XXIV and replace it by a
which appears at the end of Article XXXI, new proposed Arthyr
XXXIII and which would read as follows: the first wor
remain as in Article XXXI "A Government not party to th
and the words added are "or a Governme
Areement
›n behalf of a separate customs territory"; from there th
proposed by the United Kingdom Delegation, which have be
19, would be luserted: "possessing full autonomy in the
ès external cɔmmercial relations and of the other matto:
or by this Agreement
Then the paragraph goes on as previously written
on its DW benslf or on behal
terms be agreed between such Government and the
arties?
The mechanism which is provided for here will mean
aparate customs territories which will not have negotie
eneva will not be able to become Mambers of the olub:
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