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del oga tims, they revealed that in the last named cí envisaged restraint being requested only from the shippers causing the problem but preference would be withdrawn from all.
The Canadians express d opposition to the idea of tariff uotas (no doubt partly because of their otherwise converdont lack of an import liomming system) and falt that safeguard arrangeman te It is "along Article 31X lines" were in the best interests of all. interesting, and salutory, to see how often the basis hilosophies of developed eum:ries' trade policies shine through in their preference offers. As I have remarked earlier, it would be mad for us if the evolution of a preference scheme encouraged the crystallisation of policies of surveillance, special treatment of sensitive products, unilateral invocations of Artiole XII and the innex C Criteria and se
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I'm sorry about the manuscript, but I have no time to get this typed before leaving Paris and then the weekend intervenes. John Morris is taking a photo copy to London, and perhaps you could have typed copies sent to Lavid Sellers, Alec Purves and Åles Hermann; and to the 7.C.O., B.0.7. and Hannay in Brussels.
D.J.C. Jones, Äuq.,
Commerce and Industry Department,
Fire Brigade Building,
Hong Kon
Yours ever,
(". Borward)