GENERAL AGREEMENT ONTARIFFS AND TRADE

RESTRICTED

C/M/Index/89 January 1976Limited Distribution

INDEX

TO MINUTES OF

COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES(29 September 1960-21 November 1975)

(C/M/1-C/M/llo)and

Intersessional Committee(15 January 1952-16 May 1960)

(IC.SR/1-IC.SR/49)

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Accession, provisional accessionand participation de factoapplication and observer status

De facto application to newlyindependent countries

Participation of developingcountries in the work ofthe GATT

Procedures - Article XXVI:5(c)Procedures - Article XXXIII

AlgeriaArgentinaBangladeshBulgariaCambodiaCameroonCentral African RepublicColombiaCongoEgyptGabonHungaryIcelandIranIrelandIsraelJapan

KoreaKuwaitLaosLiberia

ParaguayPhilippinesPoland

PortugalRhodesia and Nyasaland

RomaniaSpainSwitzerland

TunisiaUpper VoltaYugoslaviaZaire

65,91

41

41

4,6,7,8,9,10,11,15,17,21,34

27,414

17,18

27,31,34,41,42

14,151,15,19,35,4221,24,25

351,23,24,37,4181411010,1515

52,61,94, 1061510,23,24,37,42,59,60,61,65,1101537,56,64,8919,24,32,41991,24,419

36,37,38,3915

3510285,89,1104,8,9,10,15,16,19,20,23,27,35,38,39,411

51,61,731,10,154,6,23,35

19,24,32,42,59,65,74,91,110151,4,8,10,24,32,35,363,35,61,62,70

IC/SR C/M

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Amendment of Agreement

Part IVSpanish text of revised General AgreementStatus of Protocols

Anti-dumping and countervailing duties- United States

-- Non-rubber footwear-- Anti-dumping investigations

Anti-dumping practices

Articlesof the - Agreement

1934,4127,31

23,24,29,32

35,59,74,81,91,101,1101,42,43

10010861,63,64,68,74,81,89,91,100,110

ArticleArticle

I

II

Article VI

Article VII

Articles XII

Article XV

Article

ArticleXlIXVIII

Article XIX

Article XXArticle XXIArticles XXII

Article XXIV

Article XXV

Article XXVI

- see Preferences- see Import and export

charges and surchargesand schedules

- see Anti-dumping andcountervailing dutiesand anti-dumping practices

- see Valuation forcustoms purposes

XII,XIII,XIV, XV- see Import restrictions- see Special exchange

agreements

- see Subsidies- see Import restrictions

and Economic development- see Emergency action- Retention of sub-paragraph (j)- see Emergency actionand XXIII- see Conciliation- see Customs Unions andFree-Trade Areas

- see Waivers- see Accession; see

Definitive applicationof the GATT

60

He

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Article XXVIII - see SchedulesArticle XXVIII bis - see Tariff

negotiationssee Amendment of the

General Agreement

Article XXXIII - see Accession

Article XXXV - see Non-application ofthe Agreement

Border tax adjustmentsCommitteesAction CommitteeAdvisory Committee to the UNCTAD Board

and to the Committee on CommoditiesAdvisory Group on the International

Trade CentreAgriculture Committee

Balance-of-Payments Import RestrictionsCommittee

Committee IICommittee IIICommittee on Budget, Finance andAdministration

40,60,65

16,17

57,70

58,61,66,73,76,85,101,10543,47,54,56,61,63,66,74,81

43

34

Committee on Trade and Development

Committee on Trade in IndustrialProducts

Consultative Group of EighteenConsultative Group on MeatImport licensing procedures- Tariff StudyCotton Textiles CommitteeGroup on CerealsGroup on MeatSpecial Group on Trade in TropicalProducts

Trade Negotiations Committee ofDeveloping Countries

Working Party on the Acceptance ofthe Anti-Dumping Code

Working Party on Dairy ProductsWorking Party on Poultry

75,11010,14,15,169,10,14,16,17,18,19,23

10,16,20,27,36,41,47,54,63,65,66,74,76,79,86,91,93,10723,24,25,27,35,37,43,58,68

43,44,47,54,60,63,67,74,81

98,100,107101,102,1036846,52,54,60,61,65819,109,10,15

9,19,43

43,74

110

43,59,83,8644,45

Article XXX

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C/M/Commodity problemsChairmanship of Interim Co-ordinatingCommittee for InternationalCommodity Arrangements

Commodity problemsDisposal of surplusesMarketing of butter in the United Kingdom

Conciliation

Belgium - family allowances- income tax practices

Brazil - internal taxesCanada - Article XXIV:6 negotiation

with Eruopean CommunitiesChile - luxury tax on automobilesDenmark - import restrictions on grainsEuropean Economic Community

- consultations under Article XXII- compensatory taxes- import restrictions on bovine meat

European Economic Community/United States- Panel on Poultry

France - import restrictions- income tax practices- special temporary compensation

tax on imports

- assistance to exports ofwheat flour

Germany, Federal Republic of- treatment of imports of sardines- ban on Icelandic fish landings

Greece - Increase in bound duty on-- long playing records-- fire-proof -material

- special import taxesItaly - administrative and statistical

fees- assistance to exports of flour- discrimination to agricultural

machinery- import restrictions- Measures for production of

domestic ships plateJamaica/United States

- Panel on margins of preferenceJapan - import restrictions on beef and

veal

4,11,2718,19,2734

4,10,11

4,11

31

38,42

19,21,27,31,34

38

4,5,10,11

31,34

10

41

41

19,244,8,10,354,8,35,615,6,8,9

87,89,110

101,102,105

64

79,8099,102,107

1880,81,8387,89,110

4

103,110

108

59

4

4

64,66

100,101,102,109

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Conciliation (cont'd)Netherlands - income tax practicesRules of Origin - consultationsSpain - imports of codfishUnited Kingdom

- British steel rebate- dollar area quotas- exports of subsidized eggs- export credit insurance scheme- restrictions on imports of

cotton textiles fromIsrael

IC/SR

31,34

87,89,1109255

43,6181,83,86,89

105,106

79,80,81,84

United Kingdom/Turkey-consultation under

Article XXII:2United States

- subsidies on oranges andalmonds

- subsidy on unmanufacturedtobacco

Uruguay- tax legislation (DISC)- recourse to Article XXIII

Consular formalitiesConsultations under Protocols of Accession

Egypt

HungaryPoland

35

10,13

4,10,13,21

- Consolidation of economicdevelopment tax

Romania- consultation customs tariff

SwitzerlandCotton textiles (see also: Trade in textiles)Council of Representatives

Election of ChairmanExtension of functionsMembership.

ObserversProceduresReport to CONTRACTING PARTIES

Customs Tariff, new

Romania

4287,89,1109,15,21,231,8,9,10,35,42,61

110103,10945,51,54,61,62,63,64,66,68,74,77,81,87,91,98,201,106,11083,89,1039453,58,79,1097,8,9,14,35,43,47

118,9,13,14,201,4,5,6,7,8,10,13,1416,18,20,21,32,41,47,53,60,64,66,68,75,77,90,91,92,93,1101,41,91,94,99,103,107135,42,51,61,74,81,91,101,110

94

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Customs Unions and Free-Trade Areas;Regional Agreements

ProceduresRegional Agreements - Calendar of

Biennial reports for examinationArab Common MarketBangkok AgreementAustralia/New Zealand Free-Trade AreaCaribbean Free-Trade AreaCaribbean Community and Common MarketCentral African Economic and Customs UnionCentral American Common MarketEquatorial Customs Union/CameroonEuropean Coal and Steel Community

European Economic Community

- accession of Denmark, Ireland,Norway and the United Kingdom

- association of African and MalagasyStates

- association of Cyprus- agreement with Egypt- association of Greece- agreement with Israel- agreement with Lebanon- association of Malta- association of Morocco- association of Nigeria- association of Overseas Territeries- agreement with Spain- association of Tanzania, Kenya and

Uganda- association of Tunisiaassociation of Turkey

- free-trade area agreement withFinland

- free-trade area agreement with Norway- free-trade area agreements with

Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Sweden,_ Austria, Portugal, Iceland

- Lomé ConventionEuropean Free-Trade Association

- accession of Iceland- association of Finland

Finland/Bulgaria AgreementFinland/Czechoslovakia AgreementFinland/German Democratic Republic AgreementFinland/Hungary Agreement

IC/SR C/M/

77,78,79,80,81

4,10,13,3830,34,36,38,41

76,10027,61,62,74,9910930,60,68,87,10761,7492,10061,62,634,8,9,10,23,61,62,9819

8,9,10,61

76,95,99,101,102,105,107

60,65,84,85,10384,89,9884,90,99.10,27,30,60,77,100,106,10864,65,73,98,106,10794,10368,75,77,9856,60,62,64,83,85,90,105418,20,21,66,74,99,10064,65,73,98

64,77,79,81,10356,60,62,64,83,85,91,10520,21,60,73,75,81,93,94,100,103

90,92,10086,87,94

30,38

80,81,90105,107,11059,68,90,10961,6410998,10398,103106,110100,103,109

Page 8

France/?????? Customs ?????Latin American Free-Trade AreaNew Zeland/AustraliaFree-Trade Agreement

???????????.- EL Salvador Free-Trade Area.South Africa- Southern -Rhodesia Customs

UnionUnited Kingdom/Ireland Free-Trade Area

Definitive application of the GATT

Director-GeneralDocumentation

DerestrictionSecret documents

Economic development - Article XVIIINotification by CeylonNotification by PeruOperation of sections C and DReview under paragraph 6

Emergency action - ArticleXIXAustralia

- glassware- footwear- rotor vehicles- sheets and plates of iron and steel- textiles - tariff quotas

European Economic Community- bovine -meat- magnetophones- table apples

Greece- meat

Japan- beef and veal

United States- ball bearings- bicycles- lead and zinc- linen towelling- spring clothes pins- ceramic tableware

IC/SR

27,31,41

4,13

4,13

38,41

26

41,4241

61,62,76,9830,60,68,87,107

33,59,68,87,1061,35

41,43,46,90

10,27,33,35,8535

1,19,4259

1,35

21100,103103105103,105

99,102,1078662,63

103

100,101,102,109

2141,422738

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Emergency action - Article XXISweden

- footwear

Environmental Measures and InternationalTrade

Export Credit InsuranceUnited Kingdom

Fellowship programme

109

70,73,74,75

105,10627 4,35,59,74,81,91,

101,109

Financial and administrativequestionsAccommodation 31Affiliation to United Nations Pension Fund 27Appointment of two Deputy Directors-GeneralAssessment of contribution.

Budget

Conference on Effective ProtectionDeviation from United Nations Staff RulesErosion of salariesFamily allowancesFinancial position

4,34,38

20.21

Post adjustment reclassificationRevaluation of the Swiss francSalary scales

Subsistence allowance, ratesTariffstudyGeneva (1967)Protocol

Import andexport charges andsurcharges

Import charges and surcharges- Canada- Denmark- France: -special temporarytax

- stamp tax- India.

1,16,19,20,21,53

20,32,36,37,41,46,65,74,75,83,901,8,10,12,14,16,19,23,30,36,37,42,47,53,58,59,63,65,66,68,74,76,77,81,82,86,91.,98,101,107,11063631045910,15,30,37,41,46,59,63,65,68,869,27699,10,15,20,27,32,47,58,59,103544647

11,14,1574,75

19,21,27,31,3434

- Israel- Italy: administrative and statistical fees- Pakistan: flood relief surchargePeru 39

- Portugal- United Kingdom- United States

4

19,27,32,75,76,78,90,9464, 68,9259

93,100

106,10823,24,27,35,3771,72,75

IC/SR C/M/

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IC/SR- Uruguay

- YugoslaviaExportcharges

- Pakistan: Licence fee and duty onexports of jute

Import depositsBrazilFinlandIcelandIsraelItalySpainUnited KingdomYugoslavia

Import documentationCanada

Import restrictions

Balance-of-payments restrictions- Consultation arrangements

- Procedure

- Argentina- Australia- Bangladesh- Belgium- Brazil- Chile- Egypt- Finland- France- Ghana- Greece- Iceland

- India- Indonesia- Israel

4,5,8,16,19,32,47,61,63,70,74,77,79,80,98,10164,65,73,98

7,9

108,109105,10697,10060,62,68,98,10196,98,100,10560,6452,53,55,58,61,64100

80,81

10,13,18,27,31,34,421,2,4,1029

19,26

3,4

312,3,32

33

- Korea

621,19,20,21,24,32,41,43,46,53,60,66,84,93,103

1,4,8,83

73,74,794101

10,24,36,56,7310,16,59,101,10632,47,65,8916,24,32,41,62,79,89,106

9,10,24,41,68.10110,24,41,65,89,9832,41,46,53,62,73,83,92,10019,24,27,32,59,90,9216,65,9010,24,32,41,47,59,62,68,92,98,10153,73,90

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IC/SR

37,38- New Zealand

- Nigeria- Pakistan- Peru- Portugal- South Africa

12

3

- Southern Rhodesia- Spain- Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

- Tunisia- Turkey- United Kingdom- Uruguay- Yugoslavia

Residual restrictions- Procedure

- Joint Working Group- Australia- Italy- Japan

Agricultural restrictions- Belgium- Canada - eggs- Germany, Federal Republic of- Luxemburg- United States - dairy products

Security exceptions- Sweden - footwear

International Trade Centre

Intersessional Committee

Membership of Committee and observers

Reports to CONTRACTING PARTIES

ProceduresMarket disruption

Newly independent States

Application of the General AgreementCommercial policy problems

3

34

1,2,3,40

19,20

3819,203,4,27

6,24,32,36,37,41,50,56,68,79,876824,59,9246,47,63,9899,1088,21,32,41,60,75,7679,81

24,36,59,64,89,903,4,9,19,21,41,56,73,9032,59,9816,32,56,87,106

32,47,6332,47,65,89,98,100,107

1,4,8,9,10,12,16,24,3558,59,60,63,68,7044,1014,64,100,101,102

1084,1032,35

109

54,58,59,61,63,66,68,73,76,83,84,85,101,105,109

12,13,30,3518,22,28,35,4241

4

65,914,6,9

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IC/SRNon-application of Agreement - Article XXXV

Application to Japan

Review

OECD. relations with

Organization for Trade Co-operationPreferences

Generalized SystemGreece - USSREEC - Citrus fruitMain findings concerning trade at mostfavoured-nation and at other rates

MalawiTrade Arrangements between India, Egyptand Yugoslavia

Trade Negotiations among Developing Countries

Programme for expansion of trade

Protocols, status of

Regional liaison - meeting in Santiago

Restrictive business practices

Rules of OriginSamples Convention

27 4,10,15,35,42,60,64,81,91,100,1094,51,4,8

19236962,63,6557,59,61

78,7953,55

34,41299,13,21,31,34,41

4,10,18,27

46,50,57,61,66,68,74,77,85,90,91,10374,1019,1035, 59,74,81,91,101,110

90,91,92

SchedulesArticle II:6(a) - Adjustment of

specific duties by IsraelContinued application of schedules

Modifications and rectifications- Procedures

Renegotiations under Article XXVIII- Procedure

Renegotiations under Article XXVIII:1

47

56,99,10119,21,37, 4,5,16,19,21,32,38,38 41,47,59,63,65,70,75,

83,95

103410,13,16,

17,18,20,21,31

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IC/SR

Renegotiations under Article XXVIII:4- Procedures- Australia

- Austria- Benelux- Brazil

- Canada- Chile- Cuba- Denmark- EEC- Finland- Greece- Haiti- India- Israel- Japan- New Zealand- Rhodesia/Nyasaland- Sweden- United Kingdom- United States

Renegotiations under Article XXVIII:5. - JapanRenegotiations under waivers

- Brazil

- Chile- India- Indonesia- Malawi- New Zealand- Peru- Turkey- Uruguay - schedule: adjustment of

specific rates

26,32,4041,43,46,47,4819

29,31,344029,3723,2415,1738,42

2112

12

15,17,2721,404123,2515,17,1823,24,25,40,45

474,12,13,22,33,34

5391,8

2,47,55

41

8

50,51,5363,6416,22,53,56

85,86

2,51

102

27,29,31

42

44

1,38,39,40,44,53,60,61,66,73,74,81,83,91,92,94,107,108,109,11037,54,6184,994,7,90,91,94,11042,53,551922,35,41,591,21,28,35

6

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IC/SR

Sessions, arrangements for

Seventh sessionEighth sessionNinth session

Tenth sessionEleventh sessionTwelfth sessionThirteenth sessionFourteenth sessionSeventeenth sessionEighteenth sessionNineteenth sessionTwentieth sessionTwenty-first sessionTwenty-second sessionTwenty-third sessionTwenty-fourth sessionTwenty-fifth sessionTwenty-sixth sessionTwenty-seventh sessionTwenty-eighth sessionTwenty-ninth sessionThirtieth sessionThirty-first sessionMeetings of Ministers

Special sessionInformal meeting

Special exchange agreements

3,4,510,1113,14,16,1821,2227,2834,3538,41,4241

1681082532,33,3537,41,4247,5154,55,6166,67,7477,78,819098107

27,28,33, 5,6,8,14,15,34,41 84

23,2566,67

3,4

State trading - Article XVII

Notification

(See also Conciliation)

Subsidies - Article XVI

16

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ReviewAction under paragraph 4Notification

Tariff negotiations(See also Schedules and Accession)

Council of Europe' planFrench proposals for automatic

tariff reductions

Implementation of Kennedy Round reductionsby Switzerland

Procedures1960-61 negotiations1973 multilateral trade negotiations

Television programmes

16,1759

8,976,78,79,8410

6Temporary importation

Trade Arrangements between India, Egyptand Yugoslavia 46,50,57,61,66,68,

74,77,85,90,91,103

Trade in Textiles(See also Cotton Textiles)

77,78,84,86,89,93,105

Trade policy measures

Discussions on trade policyInformation on trade policy measuresAustralian measuresCanada - temporary duty reductionFrench measuresGerman measuresPortuguese trade measuresUnited States - action on agricultural imports

46,108102,10589,106,1078548,49,515897,9991

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40,41 10116

4,10,16

4,10,16,17

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IC/SR

Trainee programme (see Fellowship programme)

Transport insurance

Discrimination in transport insurance

UNCTAD

Advisory Committee to Trade andDevelopment Board

UNCTAD III - Resolutions

Valuation for customs purposes

Waivers

ProceduresGeneralized System of PreferencesAustralia- Papua/New Guinea

27,35,50,5778

4,10,17

27

11

- preferences for developing countries

Belgium - agricultural import restrictionsBrazil - renegotiation

19,2027,29,3134,40

Ceylon - temporary duty increases

Chile - import surcharges- renegotiation

Cuba - Article XV:6European Coal and Steel Community

France/Germany - SaarGermany, Federal Republic of - importrestrictions

"Hard-core"

4,10,13,38

3834

26

69

10,15,35,41,50,58,64,74,81,90,10026,32,33,35,60,65,7584

1,38,39,40,44,53,60,61,66,73,74,81,83,91,92,94,107,108 ,109,1103,4,8,37,38,42,59,64,65,66,6816,2437,54,6120,21

8,23,32,41,59,60

4,101

10,13

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India - Auxiliary duty of customs- Renegotiation- Regulatory Duty

Indonesia renegotiation- Article XV:6

Italy- Somali products-- Libyan products

90, 94,10584, 9975,76,784,8,90,91,94,11033

3,4,1011,41

Jamaica -- margins of preferenceLuxemburg - agricultural import restrictions 19,20Malawi - renegotiationNew Zealand - Article XV:6 21

renegotiation 42- tariff free quotas for

handicraft productsNicaragua - increases in dutiesPakistan - flood relief surchargePeru - renegotiationRhodesia/Nyasaland United Kingdom

territoriesSouth Africa Rhodesia/NyasalandTrade Negotiations among Developing CountriesTurkey - stamp duty

- scheduleUnited Kingdom

- Article I

- dependent overseas territories

United States- agricultural import restrictions

automotive products

- tariff classification

Uruguay - import surcharges

44

44

1,32,35,42,59,608,23,24,35,42

64,6632,3542,53,55

19

91 ,110193, 10122,35,41,59

89,15,26,2774,10115,16,23,32,37,41,42,51,53,54,56,66,81,83,87,98,99,105,1061,21,28,35

8,9,10,23,35,41,5158,66,788,9,10,23,35,41,5158,66,78

42,60,62,70,81,91,92,10525,29,31,42,47,5058,66,77,83,94,10510,13,14,20, 21,26,28,294, 5, 8,16, 19, 32,47, 61,63,70,74, 77,79, 80,98,101

Waivers (cont'd)