§ Mr. Lennox-Boydasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the alterations which have been made in the text of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as a result of conferences at Geneva, Annecy and other places, he will cause to be published a complete up to date text in substitution of Command Paper No. 7258, indicating the differences between the provisions of these agreements and those of the Havana Charter.
Mr. H. WilsonThe various amendments made to the text of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade at Havana, Geneva and Annecy have individually become operative when sufficient contracting parties have ratified the protocols of modification. Preparations have accordingly been made for the publication of the revised text when the last two protocols outstanding become operative. It is expected that this will be in the near future. The ground covered by the Havana Charter, however, is so much wider than that covered by the General Agreement that I do not think that it would serve a useful purpose to produce a textual comparison between the two documents.