KEg/ifilCIED GENERAL AGREEMENT ON L/19^7 13 December 1962 TARIFFS AND TRADE Limited Distribution
NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES Status under Recommendations of 18 November i960, 9 December 196l and 14 November 1962
By the Recommendation of 18 November i960 (9S/l6) contracting parties are recommended to continue for a period of two years to apply the GATT, on a de facto basis and subject to reciprocity, in their relations with territories which acquire full autonomy in the conduct of their external commercial relations and of other matters provided for in the General Agreement but which require some time to consider their future commercial policy and the question of their relations with the GATT. Under the Recommendation of 9 December 1961 (lOS/17), this de facto application is to be extended for a further year in respect of States which request this longer period in which to decide upon their future relations with the GATT. For certain States in Africa, the period was again extended, by the Decision of 14 November 1962 (L/1934), until the close of the last ordinary session of the CONTRACTING PARTIES in 1963.I The following is the situation in respect of the States to which the Recommendations are at present applicable: Expiry date under Extended expiry date Recommendation of I960 under Recommendation (2 years after date of of 1961 or 1962 independence) Algeria 3 July 1964 Burundi 1 July 1964 •Cameroun 1 January 1962 15 November 1963 •Central African Republic 14 August 1962 15 November 1963 *Chad 11 August 1962 15 November 1963 •Congo (Brazzaville) 15 August 1962 15 November 1963 •Congo (Leopoldville) 30 June 1962 15 November 1963 •Cyprus 16 August 1962 16 August 1963 Dahomey I August 1962 15 November 1963 •Gabon 17 August 1962 15 November 1963 •Ivory Coast 7 August 1962 15 November 1963 •Jamaica 6 August 1964 •Kuwait 19 June 1963 •Madagascar 25 June 1962 15 November 1963 Mali 20 June 1962 15 November 1963 •Mauritania 28 November 1962 15 November 1963 Niger 3 August 1962 15 November 1963 Rwanda 1 July 1964 •Senegal 20 June 1962 15 November 1963 •Togo 27 April 1962 15 November 1963 •Upper Volta 5 August 1962 15 November 1963
"T?he dates fixed for the twenty-first session are 22 October to 15 November 1963. These States have advised that they are applying the GATT de facto to their trade with contracting parties.