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We can accept this.
Mr. Combe
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After the consumption of much interdepartmental time en
the notion of duty-free quotas, the Beard of Trade appear to
have abandoned it and the concept of a duty-free quota offer is
not mentioned in the conclusions of the FCO papar. Instead,
the Committee is naked to approve in principle an offer based
on tariff reductions, so that our Delegation at the next OECD
meeting on 24 September should know the likely direction of our
modified offer.
Recommendation
2. The PCO can in principle go along with a system of tariff
reductions, but we would prefer a system of duty-free quotas
and there are a number of points which require to be made, or
questions put, at the meeting.
Argument
3.
First, we should support the Board of Trade approach on
page 1 of the paper and press other doner countries in OECD te
improve their offers before we consider how far our own very
generous offer should be reduced. Secondly, while we cannot
easily question the Board of Trade about the administrative
difficulties which they have outlined in Annex A and which they
are the best qualified to judge, we should make the point that
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