[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 27 (Monday, July 7, 1997)]
[Page 998]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13052--Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices

June 30, 1997

    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.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
June 30, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., July 1, 1997]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on July 
2.