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(viii) If Britain was attempting to secure international

acceptance for the stricter application of Article XIX, she would be inhibited from invoking it except on a very strong case, whatever the degree of pressure from the British industry;

(xi) Therefore, after 1 January 1972 and the expiry of the

LTA, Britain would not be able to use Article XIX unless there was a further increase/causing or threatening further injury to British industry;

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(x) The Article XIX' policy would be fine if everyone else

and isn't the interim at rather adopted but will they?

dangerous, and open-ended, period?

Not if in ham a tail! (xi) It can be argued that the continuance of the LTA is in

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Britain's interests;

(xii) There are considerable risks for liberal international

trading generally and vis-a-vis Mr. Stans in particular in proposing a working party;

(xiii) The proposal needs to be worked out in detail first.

I am sending copies of this letter to Ken Gallagher, Bob Goldsmith in the Board of Trade, Derek Jones in Geneva, and

David Sellers in our London Office, I'm afraid it's been written & typed

in haste to catch the bag, so E & ON.

K.M. Wilford, Esq., CHG,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

King Charles Street,

London S.W. 1,

ENGLAND.

(D.H. Jordan)

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