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to suggest some amendments to improve the IPA, details might be discussed by officials of the Departments concerned before the negotiations started. We remained firmly opposed to the extension of the scope of the LTA to cover non-cotton textiles. We should explore informally what attitudes other countries were likely to adopt on non-cotton textiles and, in the light of their reactions and at an appropriate stage in the discussions, our Delegation might suggest that a GATT Working Party might be set up to study arrangements related to Article XIX which, though concentrating on textiles, should not be confined to them. would need to be given to the terms of reference of such a Working Party, and tactics in the discussions would have to be considered nearer the time. In the meantime, we would have to accept that bilateral voluntary restraint arrangements would continue to be made. The Board of Trade, in consultation with the Treasury and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, should now redraft PC0(69) 17 in the light of the points made in discussion. He would then arrange for it to be submitted to Ministers, probably with a short covering note.
Further consideration
The Committee
(1)
Invited the Board of Trade, in consultation with the
to Treasury and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, revise PC0(69) 17, es indicated in the Chairman's summing up.
(2) Took note that the Chairmen would arrange for the revised paper to be submitted to the Ministerial Committee on Commercial Policy,
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