Tariffs and Trade (Agreement)

HC Deb 05 July 1950 vol 477 c28W

Mr. Russell

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give a list of those countries whose Governments have subscribed to the provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

Mr. H. Wilson

The Governments of the following 32 countries are provisionally applying the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in accordance with the Geneva Protocol of Provisional Application or the Annecy Protocol of Terms of Accession: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, Chile, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominica, Finland, France, Greece, Haiti, India, The United States of Indonesia, Italy, The Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Southern Rhodesia, Sweden, Syria, The Union of South Africa, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, The United States of America.

The Nationalist Government of the Republic of China has notified its withdrawal from the Agreement with effect from 5th May, 1950; the Central People's Government of China has not yet defined its position with regard to the Agreement.