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RESTRICTED L/1589 GENERAL AGREEMENT ON 26 October 1961 TARIFFS AND TRADE Limited Distribution

APPLICATION OF THEGENERAL AGREEMENT

Territories to which the Agreement is Applied

Annexed hereto is a list of the contracting parties and of the territories (according to information available to the secretariat) in respect of which-the application of the Agreement has been made effective. This list is a revision of that which appeared in the Seventh Supplement pages 12-16. If there are any inaccuracies in this list, the contracting parties concerned are requested to notify the Executive Secretary not later than 30 November 1961 so that a revised list can be included in the Tenth Supplement which is to be published in January 1962. L/1589 Page 2

TERRITORIESINRESPECT OF EHICH THEAPPLICATION OF THE GENERAL AGREEMENT HASBEENMADE EFFECTIVE A. Contracting parties to GATT

Australia (including Tasmania) Austria Belgium Ruanda-Urundi (Trust territory) Brazil (including islands: Fernando de Noronha (including Rocks of Sao Pedro, Sao Paolo, Atoll das Rocas) Trinidad and Martim Vas) Burma Canada Ceylon Chile (including the islands of: Juan Fernandez group, Easter Islands, Sala y Gomez, San Feliz, San Ambrcsio and western part of Tierra del Fuego) Cuba (including Isle of Pines and some smaller islands) Czechoslovakia Denmark (including the Färoa Islands) Dominican Republic (including islands: Saona' Catalina, Beata and some smaller ones) Finland France (including Corsica and islands off the French Coast and the Principality of Monaco) Algeria French Guiana (including islands of St. Joseph, Ile Royale, Ile du Diable) French Oceania (Society Islands, Iles Sous le Vent, Marquezas Archipelago, Tuamotu Archipelago, Gambior Archipelago, Tubuai Archipelago, Rapa Island and Clipporton Island) French Somaliland (including islands: Maskali and Mourba, Frères) Guadeloupe (Islands of Guadeloupe Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre and dependencies: Marie-Galante, Ile des Saintes, Petite-Terre, St. Bartholomew and St. Martin (French part), La Désirade) Comoro Archipelago (Grande-Comore, Anjouan, Mohély, Mayotte) Martinique New Caledonia and dependencies (including the following dependencies: Isle of Pines, Huon Island, Loyalty Islands, alpole and Surprise Islands, Chesterfield islands, Wallis and Futuna Islands) Reunion St. Pierre and Miquelon (island groups) Germany, Federal Republic of Ghana Greece including Island of Euboea, and the Sporades, Dodecanese Islands, Cyclades, Ionian Islands, Aegean Islands, Crete) L/1589 Page 3

Haiti (including islands: Ile de la Tortue, Ile de la Gonave, Ile à Vache, Cayemites, Ile de la Navase, La Grande Caye) India (including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands) Indonesia (consists of Java and Madura, Sumatra, Bangka and Billiton, test, South and East Borneo (also called Kalimantan, Celebes, Molucca Islands and the Indonesian part of Timor, Bali and Lombok and several hundred adjacent islands) Italy Japan Luxemburg Malaya, Federation of Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands Antilles (comprising islands of: Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Martin (Netherlands part)) New Guinea (western half of island of New Guinea and islands off the coast) Surinam New Zealand (including the Kermadec and Chatham Islands) (comprising): 1. Northern group (including Penrhyn, , , , Palmerston, and Nassau Islands) 2. Southern group (including , , , Nitiaro, Make, , and Hanuae Islands) 3. Niue Island Nicaragua Nigeria, Federation of Norway (including Svalbard (also Known as the Archipelago of Spitsbergen, comprising i.a. Bear Island), Jan Mayen Island and Antartic possessions (viz. Bouvet Island, Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land)) Pakistan Peru Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Federation of Sierra Leone South Africa (including Southwest Africa and the Edward Islands consisting of Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. Basutoland, the Bechuanaland and Swaziland maintain a tariff similar to that which exists in the Republic and in practice for customs purposes can be regarded as in the same customs area) Sweden Turkey United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (including Isle of Man and Channel Islands) Aden Bahama Islands L/1589 Page 4

Bahrein (Bahrein, Muharraq, Sitra, Nabi Saleh: Protected State) Barbados Basutoland (Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland maintain a tariff similar to that which exists in the Republic of South Africa and in practice for customs purposes can be regarded as in the same customs area) Bechuanaland Protectorate (see Basutoland) Bermuda British Guiana British Honduras Brunei Falkland Islands and dependencies Fiji Gambia Gibraltar Hong Kong Kenya Kuwait (Sheikdom of Kuwait: ProtectedState) Leeward Islands (comprising the four separate customs territories of Antigua, Montserrat, St. Christopher-Nevis and Anguilla, and the British Virgin Islands) Maldive Islands Malta Mauritius North Borneo (including Labuan) Qatar(Sheikdom of atar: Protected State) St. Helena (including the dependencies of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha) Sarawak Seychelles Singapore Swaziland (see Basutoland) Tanganyika Tonga (Protected State) Trinidad and Tobago Crucial States (six Sheikdoms; , Unm al Qaiwain, Ajman, , , (all on seaboard of Oman) and a seventh Sheikdom: (Protected States)) Uganda Western Pacific High Commission territories (including the separate customs. territories of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony) Windward Islands (comprising the four separate customs territories of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent) Zanzibar (including Pemba) United States of America Canal Zone Guam Kingman Reef Midway Islands Puerto Rico American Samoa (including Swains Island) L/1589 Page 5

Trust territory of the Pacific Islands (Caroline, Marshall, and Mariana Islands except Guam) Virgin Islands of the United States Wake Island Uruguay B. Countries having acceded provisionally to GATT Argentina - Declaration of 18 November 1960 (Not yet in force) Israel - Declaration of 29 May 1959 Switzerland (including the Principality of Liechtonstein) - Declaration of 22 November 1958 Tunisia - Declaration of 12 November 1959

C.Countries which apply the GATT on a de facto basis (i) Decision of 17 Novcmber 1958: Cambodia (ii) Recommendation of 19 November 1959: Guinea (iii)Recommendation of 18 November 1960: Cameroun Central African Republic Chad Congo (Brazzaville) Congo (Leopoldville) Cyprus Dahomey Gabon Ivory Coast Madagascar Mali Mauritania Niger Senegal Togo Upper Volta