mug developing countries that special tariff treatment would help them and ought be conceded. The Group attach importance to this "psychological" aspect. The arvojimuit of custoan wulons cad free trudo areas in the second post-war decade jun went that a much lower proper tion of world trade is conducted on the basis of ref、n, tvrdif rates now then was the osen a few years ago. Even though m.f.n.
smule mates on a wide range of goods, particularly industrial goods, will be coming down over the next four years as a result of the Kennedy round, developing romtides take the view that not enough has been done to help solve their trading
vodoma. This dipunid Bîroton kus oxystallized itcalf in more insistent demanda
for "proferencee", in developed country markets. This cornexion between the issue
of peinoïple and the pragmatic isque can be looked at in another way. One result of the now arrangementa, which many countries would see as an important objective,
would be a movement in the direction of equality of treatment for the exports of
all developing countries in developed country markets. The US Member pointed out
that certain developing countries have expressed particular concern about special
arrangements which they consider adversely affect their trade interests. He
expressed the view that elimination of existing discrimination among developing oountries is one of the principal objectives of the proposed generalized scheme.
In his view the ultimate result should be a departure from the basic m.f.n. rule
on only one general level.
4. The Group have concentrated their attention on the queation "how" rather than
"ebother" to grant special tariff treatment. They are agreed that the concession
of special tariff treatment in developed country markets could help the developing
countries to increase their export earnings,
Gangry Juniach
5. In discussing the mechanics of arrangements for the grant of special tariff treatment, it has been the practice to deal with the subject under a number of headings, 1.9., donor countries, beneficiary countries, product coverage, depth of cut, duration, safeguards, existing preferential arrangements, etc. Piecemeal consideration under separate sub-titles of this kind may tend to obscure the interlocking nature of the problems since conclusions on any one aspect affect all the others. Although this report follows past practice, it attempts to bring out the essential relationship between each of the main aspects.