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No. MTU 15/2
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letter
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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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PRIVACY MARKING
To:-
J. G. Morris, Esq.,
From
Mr. Britten
Board of Trade.
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
In Confidence
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Generalised Preferences: the U.K. Offer
As agreed at Monday's meeting I am sending you
comments on the draft PCO paper enclosed with Kemmis
letter of 17 July. As you know, we support the gen
line of the paper.
There are, however, one or two
points we would like to see expressed a little
differently. ›
Para. 21. I agree that the reactions of the U.S.A.
Japan to a modification of our offer need not concer
us too much. The Scandinavian countries are, howeve
in a rather different position as they may well be
counting on our support in arguing that a more gene
attitude should be taken by OECD as. a whole.
It woy
surely cost us nothing and might well be to our adva
tage from a tactical point of view to give them some
advance warning of the changes we proposed as I sug
ted in my letter of 4 June to Kemmis, Perhaps you
could add at the end of the second complete sentence
"although there could be advantage in giving the
Scandinavian countries some informal advance indicat
of what was proposed".
Para. 24. I accept the substance of this paragraph
I find the argument in the second complete sentence
page 15 rather strained. If we decide to exclude c
textiles from our offer altogether we are surely no
aligning ourselves with the EEC and the best defence
/woul