would presumably be the point you makecat the end of
the sentence about the high proportion of imports we
already take from developing countries.
les. The fact that
in future our tariff on all imports of cotton textiles
at will be close to those of the EEC does not seem to me
to be relevant in the context of the preference scheme.
Para. 27. No doubt Dixon will be commenting on this
paragraph. We agree with him that the aim should be to
produce a reasonable offer in which an attempt would be̟
made to secure the acquiescence of CPA developing
countries by excluding a number of items on which they
had contractual rights and had expressed interest.
A
Paras. 29-31. The last sentence of paragraph 31 strikes
a
me as rather half-hearted. I suggest it might read:
"The Commonwealth Secretariat have already suggested
that they could play a useful part in preparing and
jarranging Commonwealth consultations. This is likely to
be welcome to the developing members of the Commonwealth
We should keep close touch with the Secretariat and be
ready to put proposals to them on the form of these
consultations in due course." It would be useful to add
a section (c) to cover consultations with dependent
territories. This could take the following line:
"Copies of our original lists were sent to a large
number of our dependent territories and we must there-
fore keep them informed of any substantial changes. A
less generous offer on our part should be to their
advantage although in practice it may make little
difference as for most territories the amount of trade
which would be affected by the preference scheme is very
small.
In general it should therefore be sufficient to
send the dependent territories copies of our revised
cuhringlion at the same time as it is ei reulated to
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