GENERAL AGREEMENT ON RESTRICTEDL/1016 TARIFFS AND TRADE 8 July 1959 Limited Distribution

INTERATIONAL CONVENTION TO FACILITATE THE IMPORTATION OF COMMERCIAL SAMPLES AND ADVERTISING MATERIAL

Report by the Executive Secretary

The International Convention to Facilitate the Importation of Commiercial Samples and Advertising Material is applicable for the following thirty-thee countries which have ratified or acceded to the Convention up to the present date: Australia The Netherlands (for the realm in Austria Europe, Surinam, Netherlands New Belgium Guinea and Netherlands Antilles) Czechoslovakia New Zealead (Cook and Tokelau Islands Denmark and Western Samoa) Egypt Norway Finland Pakistan Federal Republic of Germany¹ Portugal Ghana Federation of Rhodesia and Gree??. Ny?????land Haiti Spain- Hungary Sweden India Switzerland Indonesia Turkey Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain Israel and Northern Ireland Italy (including Isle of Men)³ Japan United States of America³ Luxemburg Yugoslavia Federation of Malaya

1 Reservations by Germany and India are given in document L/253.

2 Spain has withdrawn its reservation to Article VI of the Convention (see document L/253) in a communication received on 17 June 1959 by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

3 Territories to which the Convention is or is not applicable are given in documents L/539/Add.2 and 7. L/1016 Page 2

The following contracting parties have not yet become a party to the Convention: Brazil France Burma Nicaragua Canada¹ Peru Ceylon Union of South Africa Chile Uruguay Cuba Dominican Republic

¹ Following the Secretary-General's recommendations to United Nations mombers to accept the Convention, two governments expressed their intentions and these are reproduced in document L/731/Add.1.