PROTOCOL
MAINTAINING IN FORCE THE ARRANGEMENT
REGARDING INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN TEXTILES
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE
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9 December 1992
Geneva- 3 -
PROTOCOL MAINTAINING IN FORCE THE ARRANGEMENT
REGARDING INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN TEXTILES
The PARTIES to the Arrangement regarding International Trade in Textil es
(hereinafter referred to as "the Arrangement" or "MFA"),
ACTING pursuant to paragraph 5 of Article 10 of the Arrangement,
REAFFIRMING that the terms of the Arrangement regarding the competence
of the Textiles Committee and the Textiles Surveillance Bod y are maintained, and
FOLLOWING the Decision of the Textiles Committee adopted on
9 December 1992;
HEREBY AGREE as follows:
1. The Arrangement, including the Conclusions of the Textil es Committee, adopted
on 31 July 1986, as amended by the 1989 Protocol Amending the 1 986 Protocol
Extending the Arrangement Regarding International Trade i n Textiles, shall be
maintained in force for a further period of twelve months unt il 31 December 1993.
2. This Protocol shall be deposited with the Director-Gener al to the
CONTRACTING PARTIES to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. It shall
be open for acceptance, by signature or otherwise, by the Par ties to the Arrangement,
by other governments accepting or acceding to the Arrangeme nt pursuant to the
provisions of Article 13 thereof and by the European Economi c Community.
3. This Protocol shall enter into force with effect from 1 Jan uary 1993 for the parties
which have accepted it by that date and it shall enter into for ce for a party which
accepts it on a later date as of the date of such acceptance. It shall be applied
provisionally, taking into account their constitutional a nd/or legislative procedures
for ratification, as from 1 January 1993, by parties which ha ve signed it subject to
completion of constitutional procedures, or notified the d epositary of their intention
to apply it provisionally, by that date, and by other parties from the date of their
signature or notification of provisional application.
DONE at Geneva this ninth day of December one thousand nine hundre d and
ninety-two in a single copy, in the English, French and Spani sh languages, each text
being authentic.