GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

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1 GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE RESTRICTED L/ 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 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.

2 Page 2 Contracting Parties to GATT and territories in respect of which the. application of the Agreement has been made effective. AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA (Including Tasmania) BELGIUM BELGIAN CONGO RUANDA-URUNDI (Trust Territory) BRAZIL (Including islands: Fernando de Noronha (including Rocks of Sao Pedro, Sao Paolo, Atoll 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 Greenland 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) FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA FRENCH GUIANA (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 Clipperton Island) 1The 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).

3 Page 3 FRENCHSOMLILAND (Including islands Maskali and Mourba, Fiéres) FRENCE WEST AFRICA GUADELOUPE (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) MADAGASCAR 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., 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, 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

4 Page 4 NETHERLANDS, KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDSANTILLES (Comprising Islands of: Curagao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Martin (Netherlands part)) GUINEA NEW (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. 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. 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) KINGDOM UNITED (Great Britain and Northern Ireland including Channel Islands) Isle of Man and BAHAMA ISLANDS BAHREIN (Bahrein, Muharraq, Sitra, Nabi Saleh: Protected State) BARBADOS

5 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) BERMUDA BRITISH GULANA BRITISH HONDURAS BRUNEI CYPRUS FALKLAND ISLANDS ANDDEPENDENCIES 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 SIERRA LEONE SINGAPORE (Including the dependency of Christmas Island) SOMALILAND PROMTECTORATE SWAZILAND TANGANYIKA (See Basutoland)

6 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 KINGMAN MIDWAY ISLANDS PUERTO RICO AMERICAN SAMOA or Ocean Island and Palmyra Island) REEF (Including Swains Island) TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS (Caroline, Marshall, and Mariana Islands except Guam) VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES WAKE URUGUAY ISLAND