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                                                                 EXHIBIT a(1)(h)

                                 AMENDMENT NO. 7
                                       TO
                       AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
                                       OF
                                AIM GROWTH SERIES


         This Amendment No. 7 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust of AIM
Growth Series (this "Amendment") amends, effective as of June 12, 2000, the
Agreement and Declaration of Trust of AIM Growth Series, a Delaware business
trust (the "Trust"), dated as of May 7, 1998, as amended (the "Agreement").

         WHEREAS, the Trustees of the Trust and the Shareholders of AIM New
Pacific Growth Fund have approved the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization,
dated as of March 22, 2000, adopted by the Trust on behalf of AIM New Pacific
Growth Fund, pursuant to which AIM New Pacific Growth Fund would be reorganized
into AIM Asian Growth Fund, a portfolio of AIM International Funds, Inc. (the
"Reorganization"); and

         WHEREAS, the Reorganization was consummated on June 12, 2000, at 8:00
a.m. Eastern Time; and

         WHEREAS, the Trustees of the Trust have directed that promptly
following the Reorganization, the Trust shall terminate AIM New Pacific Growth
Fund in accordance with Delaware law;

         NOW, THEREFORE, the Trustees hereby amend the Agreement as follows:

         1. Capitalized terms not specifically defined in this Amendment shall
have the meanings ascribed to them in the Agreement.

         2. Schedule A to the Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and a
new Schedule A to the Agreement is substituted to read in its entirety as
follows:

                                   "SCHEDULE A

         AIM Growth Series shall be divided into the following Portfolios, each
of which shall have three Classes (Class A, Class B and Class C):

                              AIM Basic Value Fund
                            AIM Euroland Growth Fund
                              AIM Japan Growth Fund
                             AIM Mid Cap Equity Fund
                            AIM Small Cap Growth Fund

Date: June 12, 2000"

         3. Except as specifically amended by this Amendment, the Agreement
(including all prior amendments thereto) is hereby confirmed and remains in full
force and effect.

         4. All references in the Agreement to "this Agreement" shall mean the
Agreement



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(including all prior amendments thereto) as amended by this Amendment.

         5. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by
different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall
constitute one and the same Amendment.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Trustees of the Trust have executed
this Amendment as of June 12, 2000.


/s/ C. DEREK ANDERSON                       /s/ ROBERT H. GRAHAM
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C. Derek Anderson, Trustee                  Robert H. Graham, Trustee


/s/ FRANK S. BAYLEY                         /s/ RUTH H. QUIGLEY
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Frank S. Bayley, Trustee                    Ruth H. Quigley, Trustee




                         [THIS IS THE SIGNATURE PAGE FOR
              AMENDMENT NO. 7 TO AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
                              OF AIM GROWTH SERIES]



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