TNAG-1491-FCO40-2049-Future-of-Hong-Kong-General-Agreement-on-Tariffs-and-Trade-(-1986 — Page 160

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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 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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