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[Title] Final Act authenticating the Results of the 1964-67 Trade Conference held under the auspices of the CONTRACTING PARTIES to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

[Place] Geneva
[Date] June 30, 1967
[Source] Nihon Gaiko Shuyo Bunsyo Nenpyo(2), pp.701-702. GATT, House Document, Vol.1, pp.6-7.
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[Full text]

1. The CONTRACTING PARTIES to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (hereinafter referred to as "the General Agreement") decided on 21 May 1963 to arrange for a trade conference to convene on 4 May 1964.

2. The negotiations at that conference, which opened at Geneva on that date and were concluded on 30 June 1967, included:

(a) negotiations, pursuant to Article XXVIII bis and other relevant provisions of the General Agreement, between contracting parties and between contracting parties and the European Economic Community, on tariffs and on non-tariff barriers with respect to both industrial and agricultural products,

(b) negotiations, pursuant to paragraph 6 of Article XXIV of the General Agreement between the governments of the member States of the European Coal and Steel Community and other contracting parties,

(c) negotiations, pursuant to Article XXXIII, directed towards the accession of governments to the General Agreement.

3. As a result of these negotiations the following instruments have been prepared:

(a) Geneva (1967) Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,

(b) Agreement relating principally to Chemicals, supplementary to the Geneva (1967) Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,

(c) Memorandum of Agreement on Basic Elements for the Negotiation of a World Grains Arrangement,

(d) Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,

(e) Protocol for the Accession of Argentina to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,

(f) Protocol for the Accession of Iceland to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,

(g) Protocol for the Accession of Ireland to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and

(h) Protocol for the Accession of Poland to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

4. The texts of these instruments are annexed hereto and are hereby authenticated. The signature of this Final Act evidences the intention of each signatory to take, subject to its constitutional procedures, such steps as are considered appropriate to give effect to those instruments in the negotiation of which it has participated.

DONE at Geneva, this thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven, in a single copy in the English and French languages, both texts being authentic.