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RESTRICTED L/3166 GENERAL AGREEMENT ON 21 January 1969 TARIFFS AND TRADE Limited Distribution

APPLICATION OF THE GENERAL AGREEMENT

Territorial Application

Annexed hereto is a list of the countries and territories (according to information available to the secretariat) in respect of which the General Agreement is applied. This list is a revision of that which appeared in the Fourteenth Supplement, BISD, pages 1-5. If there are any inaccuracies in this list, the contracting parties concerned are requested to notify the secretariat not later than 24 February so that an up-to-date list can be published in the Sixteenth Supplement. L/3166 Page 2

COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES* IN RESPECT OF WHICH THE GENERAL AGREEMENT IS APPLIED A. CONTRACTING PARTIES Argentina Australia, Commonwealth of Austria Barbados Belgium Brazil (including : Fernando de Noronha (including Rocks of Sao Pedro, Sao Paulo, Atoll das Rocas), Trinidad and Martin Vas) Burma Burundi Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Ceylon Chad Chile (including islands: Juan Fernandez group, Easter Islands, Sala y Gomez, San Feliz, San Ambrosia and western part of ) Congo (Brazzaville) (including Isle of Pines and some smaller islands) Cyprus Czechoslovakia Dahomey (including the Faroé 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) Comoro (Grande-Comore, Anjouan, Mahély, ) French Guiana (including islands: St. Joseph. Ile Royale, Ile du Diable) French Oceania (, Iles Sous le Vent, Marquezas Archipelago, Tuamotu Archipelago, Gambior Archipelago, Tubuai Archipelago, Rapa and Clipperton Island) French Territory of the Afars and the Issas Guadeloupe (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre and dependencies: Marie-Galante, Ile des Saintes, Petite-Terre, St. Bartholomew and St. Martin (French part), La Désirade) Martinique and dependencies (including Isle of Pines, Huon Island, Loyalty Islands, Walpole and Surprise Islands, Chesterfield Islands, Islands) Reunion St. Pierre and Miquelon (island groups) Southern and Antarctic territories (Kerguelen and Crozet , St. Paul and Amsterdam Islands, Terre Adélie) Tromelin, Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas - de - India Islands

*The names of the territories are those furnished to the secretariat by the governments responsible for the application of the GATT to the trade of the territories and are here listed without prejudice to any disagreement that may exist between contracting parties concerning political sovereignty or concerning L/3166 Page 3

Gabon Gambia Germany, Federal Republic of Ghana Greece (including Island of Euboea, and the , Islands, , Ionian Islands, Aegean Islands, Crete) Guyana Haiti (including islands: Ile de la Tortue, Ilede la Gonave, Ile a Vache, Cayemites, Ile de la Navase, La Grande Caye) Iceland India (including Andaman and ) (consists of Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali and Nusatenggara (including the Indonesian part of Timor), Maluku and Irian Barat) Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Kenya Korea, Republic of Kuwait Luxemburg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mauritania Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands (comprising islands: Curagao, Aruba,.Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Martin (Netherlands part)) Surinam (including Kermadec and ) , 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 Niger Nigeria. Norway (including (also known as the Archipelago of Spitsbergen, comprising inter alia Bear Island), Jan Mayen Island and Antarctic possessions (viz., Bouvet Island, Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land)) Pakistan Peru Poland L/3166 Page 4

Portugal Territory in Europe (including and Islands) Angola Cabinda Islands Macao Mozambique Portuguese Guinea Sao Tome and Principe Islands Timor (Portuguese part) Rhodesia Rwanda - Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa (including South West Africa and the consisting of Marion Island and Prince Edward Island)¹ Spain Territory in the Peninsula and Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Ceuta and IMelilla Ifni and Sahara Fernando Po and Rio Muni Sweden Switzerland (including the principality of Liechtenstein) Tanzania Togo Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Uganda United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (including Isle of.Man and ) Antigua² Bahamas Bahrein (including Muharraq, Sitra, Nabi Saleh) (State in special treaty relations) British Antarctic Territory British Honduras British Indian Territory³ (comprising the islandsof the , Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches)

¹Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland maintain a tariff similar to that which exists in South Africa and in practice for customs purposes-can be regarded as in the same customs area. ²Associated States. ³The Chagos Archipelago was formerly administered by the Government of Mauritius and other islands by the Government of the Seychelles. L/3166 Page 5

British Brunei (protected State). Dominica¹ and dependencies Gibraltar Grenada¹ Hong Kong Montserrat Qatar (State in special treaty relations) St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla St..Helena (including dependencies: Ascension Island and ) St. Lucia1 St. Vincent Seychelles (protected State) Trucial States (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras al Khaimsh, Umm al Qaiwan, Fujairah) (States in special treaty relations) Western Pacific High Commission territories (including the separate customs territories of the British Protectorate and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony) United States of America Canal Zone Guama Kingman Reef Midway Islands American (including Swains Island) Trust territory of the Pacific Islands (Caroline, Marshall and except Guam) Virgin Islands of the United States Wake Island Upper Volta Uruguay Yugoslavia B. COUNTRIES HAVING ACCEDED PROVISIONALLY TO GATT Tunisia United Arab Republic

¹Associated States. L/3166 Page 6

C. COUNTRIES WHICH APPLY THE GATT ON A DE FACTO BASIS Algeria Botswana Cambodia Congo (Leopoldville) Lesotho¹ Maldive Islands Mali Mauritius Singapore South Yemen Swaziland¹ Zambia

¹See footnote on page 4.