GENERAL AGREEMENT on ^ TARIFFS and TRADE *> *****1958
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GENERAL AGREEMENT ON ^ TARIFFS AND TRADE *> *****1958 Limited Distribution APPLICATION OF THE GENERAL 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 document G/5 under date of 17 March 1952. If there are any inaccuracies in this list, the contracting parties concerned are requested to notify the Executive Secretary not later than 1 October 1958 so that a revised list can be issued, if necessary, before the opening of the Thirteenth Session* L/843 Paee 2 Contracting parties to GATT and territories In respeot ot which the application of the Agreement has been made affective AUSTRALIA (Including Tasmania) AUSTRIA BELGIUM BELGIAN CONGO 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 Ambrosio and western part of Tierra del Fuego) CUBA (Including Isle of Pines and some smaller islands) CZECHOSLOVAKIA DENMARK (Including Greenland and the Island of Disko, Faroe Islands, Islands of Zeeland, Funen, Holland, Falster, Bornholm and some 1700 small islands) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (Including islands: Saona, Catalina, Beata and some smaller ones) FINLAND FRANCE (Including Corsica and Islands off the French Coast, the Saar and the principality of Monaco)! ALGERIA CAMEROONS (Trust Territory) FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA FRENCH GUIANA (Including islands of St. Joseph, Ile Roya, Ile du Diable) FRENCH OCEANIA (Society Islands, lies Sous le Vent, Marquezas Archipelago, Tuamotu Archipelago, Gambier Archipelago, Tubuai Archipelago, Rapa Island and Clipperton Island) The position of Cambodia, Laos and Tunisia, in respect of which France previously applied the Agreement, is the subject of a Decision of the CONTRACTING PARTIES (see Decision of 22 November 1957, BISD, Sixth Supplement, page 10). L/843 Page 3 FRENCH SOMALILAND (Including islands Maskali and Mourba, Frères) FRENCH WEST AFRICA 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) MADAGASCAR AND DEPENDENCIES (Including the following dependencies: Europe Islands, Nossi Be, Juan de Nova; Iles Stériles and Basses da India; Glorieuses Archipelago; Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands; Kerguelen Archipelago; Crozet Archipelago, Terre Adelie (in Antarctic)) COMORO ARCHIPELAGO (Grande-Comore, Anjouan, Mohély, Mayotte) MARTINIQUE NEW CALEDONIA AND DEPENDENCIES (Including the following dependencies: Isle of Pines, Huon Island, Loyalty Islands, Walpole and Surprise Islands, Chesterfield Islands, Wallis and Futuna Islands) REUNION ST. PIERRE AND MIQUELON (Island groups) TOGOLAND (Trust territory) GERMANY, FEDERAL REPUBLIC GHANA GREECE (Including Island of Euboea, and the Sporades, Dodecanese Islands, Cyclades, Ionian Islands, Aegean Islands, Crete) 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, West, 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 (Excluding Zara> greater part of Venezia Giulia with Fiume and Pola (except Gorizia)) JAPAN LUXEMBURG MALAYA, FEDERATION OF L/843 Pag© 4 NETHERLANDS, KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS ANTILLES (Comprising Islands of: Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, St, Bustatius, 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) COOK ISLANDS (comprising: 1. Northern Group (including Penrhyn, Manihiki, Rakahanga, Pukapuka, Palmerston, Suwarrow and Nassau Islands) 2. Southern Group (including Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Atiu, Mitiaro, Mauke, Mangaia, Takutea and Manuae Islands) fl 3. Niue Island) NICARAGUA NORWAY (Including Svalbard (also known as the Archipelago of Spitsbergen, comprising i.a. Bear Island), Jan Mayen Islands, and Antarctic possessions (viz. Bouvet Island, Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land) PAKISTAN PERU RHODESIA AND NYASALAND, FEDERATION OF SWEDEN (Including small islands off the coast and islands of Gotland and Oland) TURKEY * UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA (including South West Africa and the Prince Edward Islands consisting of Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. Baeutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland maintain a tariff similar to that which exists in the Union and in practice for customs purposes can be regarded as in the same customs areaj UNITED KINGDOM (Great Britain and Northern Ireland including Isle of Man and Channel Islands) ADEN BAHAMA ISLANDS BAHREIN (Bahrein, Muharraq., Sitra, Nabi Saleh: Protected State) BARBADOS 1/843 Page 5 BASUTOLAND (Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland maintain a tariff similar to that which exists in the Union of South Africa and in practice for customs purposes can be regarded as in the same customs areaj BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE (See Basutoland) BERMUDA BRITISH GUIANA BRITISH HONDURAS ... BRUNEI CYPRUS FALKLAND ISLANDS AND DEPENDENCIES FIJI GAMBIA GIBRALTAR HONG KONG KENYA KUWAIT (The Sheikdom of Kuwait: Protected State) 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 NIGERIA (Including the Cameroons under United Kingdom Trusteeship) NORTH BORNEO (Including Labuan) QATAR (Sheikdom of Qatar: Protected State) ST. HELENA (Including the dependencies of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha) SARAWAK SEYCHELLES SIERRA LEONE SINGAPORE (Including the dependency of Christmas Island) SOMALILAND PROTECTORATE SWAZILAND (See Basutoland) TANGANYIKA L/843 Pago 6 TRINTBAD AND TOBAGO TRUCIAL STATES (Six Sheikdoms: Ras al Khaimah, Unm al Qaiwain, Ajman, Sharjah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi (all on Persian Gulf Seabord of Oman) and a seventh Sheikdom: Kalba (Protected States)) UGANDA WESTERN PACIFIC HIGH COMMISSION TERRITORIES (Including the separate customs territories of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and the protected State of Tonga) WINDWARD ISLANDS (Comprising the four separate customs territories of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent) ZANZIBAR (Including Pemba) f] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (including Alaska) CANAL ZONE GUAM HAWAII (Including Hurl or Ocean Island and Palmyra Island) KINGMAN REEF MIDWAY ISLANDS PUERTO RICO AMERICAN SAMOA (Including Swains Island) TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS (Caroline, Marshall, and Mariana Islands except Guam) VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES WAKE ISLAND URUGUAY .