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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

RESTRICTED GENERAL AGREEMENT ON L/843 TARIFFS AND TRADE 20- August 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 Page 2 Contracting Parties to GATT and territories in respect of which the. application of the Agreement has been made effective.

AUSTRALIA (Including Tasmania) AUSTRIA BELGIUM BELGIAN CONGO RUANDA-URUNDI (Trust Territory) BRAZIL (Including islands: Fernando de Noronha (including Rocks of Sao Pedro, Sao Paolo, des Rocas) Trinidad and Martim Vas) BURMA CANADA CEYLON CHILE (Including the islands of: Tuan 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 and the Island of Disko, Färoe Islands, Islands of Zeeland, Funen, Lolland, 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)1 ALGERIA CAMEROONS (Trust Territory) (Including islands of St. Joseph, Ile Roya, Ile du Diable) FRENH OCEANIA (Society Islands, Iles Sous le Vent, Marquezas Archipelago, Tuamotu Archipelago, Gambier Archipelago, Tubuai Archipelago, Rapa Island and )

1The position of Cambodia, 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

FRENCHSOMLILAND (Including islands Maskali and Mourba, Fiéres) FRENCE WEST AFRICA (Islands of Guadeloupe Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre and dependencies: Marie-Galante, Ile des Sainted, Petite-Terre, St. Bartholomew and St. Martin (French Part), La Désirade) AND DEPENDENCIES (Including the following dependencies: Europa Islands, Nossi Be, Juan de Nova; Iles Steriles and Bassas da India; Glorieuses Archipelago; Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands; Kerguelen Archipelago; Crozet Archipelago, Torre Adelie. (in Antarctic)) COMORO ARCHIPELAGO (Grande-Comore., , Mohély, ) AND DEPENDENCIES (Including the following dependencies: Isle of Pines, Huon Island, Loyalty Islands, Walpole and Surprise Islands, Chesterfield Islands, 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, Cayamites, 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 (Excludingg Zara, greater part of Venezia Giulia with Fiume and Pola (except Gorizia)) JAPAN LUXEMBURG MALAYA, FEDERTION OF L/843 Page 4

NETHERLANDS, KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDSANTILLES (Comprising Islands of: Curagao, , , , St. Eustatius, St. Martin (Netherlands part)) GUINEANEW (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) 3. Niue Island) NICARAGUA NORWAY (Including Svalbard (also known as the Archipelago of Spitsbergen, comprising i.a. Bear Island), Jan Mayen Islands, and Antarctio possessions (viz. , and ) 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. Arica and the Prince Edward Islands consisting of Marion Island and Prince Edward Island. Basutoland, 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 area) KINGDOMUNITED (Great Britain and Northern Ireland including Isle of Man and Channel Islands)

BAHAMA ISLANDS BAHREIN (Bahrein, Muharraq, Sitra, Nabi Saleh: Protected State) BARBADOS L/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 samecustoms area) BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE (See Basutoland) BRITISH GULANA BRITISHHONDURAS BRUNEI CYPRUS ANDDEPENDENCIES

GAMBIA GIBRALTAR HONG KONG KENYA. KUWAIT (The Sheikdom of Kuwait: Protected State) LEEWARD ISLANDS (Comprising the four separate customs territories of Antigua; ; St. Christopher-Nevis and ; and the ) MALDIVE ISLANDS MALTA 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

SIERRA LEONE SINGAPORE (Including the dependency of Christmas Island) SOMALILAND PROMTECTORATE SWAZILAND (See Basutoland) TANGANYIKA Page 6

TRINIDAD ANDTOBACO

TRUCIAL STATES (Six Sheildoms: Ras al Khaimah, Unm al Qaiwain, Ajman, Sharjah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi (all on Persian Gulf Seabord of Oman) and a seventh Sheikdom: Kalba (Protectedd 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)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (including Alaska)

CANALZONE GUAM

HAWII(Including Kuré 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

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