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ACCORD GÉNÉRAL

SUR LES TARIFS DOUANIERS

ET LE COMMERCE

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TELEGRAMMES: GATT, GENÈVE

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RÉFÉRENCE:

GLI/277

GÆFT

GENERAL AGREEMENT

ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

Centre William Rappard Rue de Lausanne 154 CH-1211 GENÈVE 21

20 June 1986

AGREEMENT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTICLE VII OF THE

GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

DONE AT GENEVA ON 12 APRIL 1979

COMMUNICATION FROM THE DELEGATION OF HONG KONG

I have the honour to inform you than on 28 April 1986 I received the following communication Tom the Permanent Representative of Hong Kong to GATT:

the

(1980)

communications from the

"I have the honour to refer to Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom sent to you on 17 December 1979 and 12 May (1980) accepting on behalf of Hong Kong respectively the Anti-Dumping Code, the Customs Valuation Code, the Agreement on Government Procurement, the Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures, the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, the Code on Subsidies and Countervailing Duties which were done at Geneva on 12 April 1979 and the Protocol to the Custom Valuation Code which was done at Geneva on 1 November 1979; and to the communication delivered to the GATT Secretariat on 23 April 1986 by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom declaring that Hong Kong will, with effect from this latter date, be deemed to be a Contracting Party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in accordance with the provisions of Article XXVI(5) (c) thereof.

I have been instructed to inform you that Hong Kong will continue to accept the above-mentioned Codes, Agreements and Protocol and will continue to participate in the work of the relevant Committees."

I certified in document L/5986, dated 24 April 1986, that the conditions required by Article XXVI:5(c) had been met and that Hong Kong had become a contracting party with rights and obligations dating from 23 April 1986.

With effect from 23 April 1986, Hong Kong has become a party to the Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

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Arthur Dunkel

Director-General