Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices
Signed June 30, 1997·William J. Clinton·62 FR 35659
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Acting under authority granted by an act of Congress signed on June 27, 1997, the order extends to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities under the International Organizations Immunities Act and under Article I of the Agreement on State and Local Taxation of Foreign Employees of Public International Organizations. It clarifies that the order does not limit any other privileges, exemptions, or immunities the offices may already have or later acquire through international agreements or congressional action.
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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
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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.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 30, 1997.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed June 30, 1997. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.