Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices

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Title 3--
The President

Executive Order 13052 of June 30, 1997

Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including S. 342, an Act to extend certain
privileges, exemptions, and immunities to Hong Kong
Economic and Trade Offices, which I signed into law on
June 27, 1997, I hereby extend to the Hong Kong
Economic and Trade Offices the privileges, exemptions,
and immunities provided by the International
Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 et seq.),
and Article I of the Agreement on State and Local
Taxation of Foreign Employees of Public International
Organizations (T.I.A.S. 12135). This order is not
intended to abridge in any respect privileges,
exemptions, or immunities that the Hong Kong Economic
and Trade Offices may have acquired or may acquire by
international agreements or by congressional action.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 30, 1997.