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Article XXXII Contracting Parties 1. The contracting parties to this Agreement shall be understood to mean those Governments which are applying the provisions of this Agreement under Article XXVI or pursuant to the Protocol of Provisional Application. 2. At any time after the entry into force of this Agreement pursuant to paragraph 5 of Article XXVI, those contracting parties which have accepted this Agreement pursuant to paragraph 3 of Article XXVI may decide that any contracting party which has not so accepted it shall cease to be a contracting party. Article XXXIII Accession A Government not party to this Agreement, or a Government acting on behalf of a separate Customs territory possessing full autonomy in the conduct of its external commercial relations and of the other matters provided for in this Agreement, may accede to this Agreement, on its own behalf or on behalf of that territory, on terms to be agreed between such government and the contracting parties. Article XXXIV Annexes The annexes to this Agreement are hereby made an integral part of this Agreement. ANNEX A List of Territories referred to in Paragraph 2 (a) of Article I United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Dependent territories of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Canada. Commonwealth of Australia. Dependent territories of the Commonwealth of Australia. New Zealand. Dependent territories of New Zealand. Union of South Africa including South West Africa. Ireland. India (as on April 10, 1947). Newfoundland. Southern Rhodesia. Burma. Ceylon. Certain of the territories listed above have two or more preferential rates in force for certain products. Any such territory may, by agreement with the other contracting parties which are principal suppliers of such products at the most-favoured-nation rate, substitute for such preferential rates a single preferential rate which shall not on the whole be less favourable to suppliers at the most-favoured-nation rate than the preferences in force pri6r to such substitution.