GENERAL AGREEMENT RESTRICTED TARIFFS AND TRADE

GENERAL AGREEMENT RESTRICTED TARIFFS AND TRADE (full text pdf)

2 October 1951 ENGLISH

ORIGINAL: FRENCH

CONTRACTING PARTIES

Sixth Session

WORKING PARTY 1 ON RESOLUTIONS OF

THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COWMERCE

International Convention for the Simplification

of Customs Formalities-1923

There is herewith circulated a list of the countries which have

ratified, or acceded to, the International Convention for the

Simplification of Customs Formalities. This list has been received

from the Legal Department of the United Nations and is based on the

last publication of the League of Nations entitled “Signatures,

Ratifications and Accessions, in respect of Agreements and Conventions

concluded under the auspices of the League of Nations. The Legal

Department has informed the Secretariat that the matters which have

arisen since 1946 under this Convention have been so far administered

by them in consultation with the Department of Economic Affairs.

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CONVENTION RELATING TO THE SIMPLIFICATION OF CUSTOM FORMALITIES,

AND PROTOCOL

Geneval November 3rd, 1923

Ratifications or definitive Accessions

Austria

Belgium

Brazil

British Empire

September 11, 1924

October 4, 1924

July 10, 1929

August 29, 1924

It is stated in the instrument of ratification that this ratification

shall not be deemed to apply in the case of the Dominion of Canada,

the Commonwealth of Australia (or any territory under its authority)

or the Irish Free State or in the case of India, and that in pursuance

of the power reserved in Article XXIX of the Convention, it shall not

be deemed to apply in the case of the Island of Newfoundland or of the

territories of Iraq and Nauru, in respect. of which His Britannic Majesty

has accepted a mandate, It does not apply to the Sudan.

Burma

Australia March 13, 1925

Excluding Papua, Norfolk Island and the Mandated Territory of New

Guinea.

New Zealand August 29, 1924

Includes the mandated territory of Western Samoa.

Union of South Africa

India

Pakistan

Bulgaria

Czechoslovakia

Denmark

Egypt

Estonia

Finland

France

August 29, 1924

March 13, 1925

December 10, 1926

February 23,1926

March 23, 1925

February 28, 1930 a

May 23, 1928

September 13, 1926

Does not apply to the Colonies under its sovereignty.

Morocco (French Protectorate)

Tunis

Syria and Lebanon

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iran

Iraq

November 8, 1926

November 8, 1926

March 9, 1933 a

August 1 1925

July 6, 1927

February 23, 1926

May 8, 1925 a

May 3, 1934 a

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Italy

Latvia

Luxemburg

The Netherlands (including Netherlands Indies Surian

Norway and Curaçao)

Poland

Roumania

June 13, 1924

September 28, 1931 a

June 10, 1927

May 30, 1925

September 7, 1926

September 4, 1931

December 23, 1925

Under the same reservations as those formulated by the other Governments

and inserted in Article 6 of the Protocol, the Royal Government

understands that Article 22 of the Convention confers the right to

have recourse to the procedure provided for in this Article for questions

of a general nature solely on the High Contracting Parties, private

persons being only entitled to appeal to their own judicial authorities

in case any dispute arises with the authority of the Kingdom.

Sweden

Switzerland

Thailand

Yugoslavia

February 12, 1926

January 3, 1927

May 19,, 1925

May 2, 1929

Signatures not yet perfected by Ratification:

Chile

Japan

Lithuania

Paraguay

Portugal

Spain

Uruguay

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