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Miss Genmaily
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countries it seems tactically advantageous to do so, we should
explain in the lines set out in paragraph 29 why we do not
regard the present position or prospects as satisfactory and
suggest the establishment of a Working Party to review the
situation and to recommend the best ways of dealing with it.
One of our objectives would be to bring within GATE considera-
tion the question of "voluntary restraints on exports of
non-cotton textiles. It would be our hope that such a
Working Party would have the effect of heading off any further
protectionist tendencies in the textiles field or more
generally; and that it might succeed in bringing more order
into this area of international trade than obtains at present.
Before suggesting such a Working Party, we should work out in
greater detail what its terms of reference might be.
7. If Ministers agree with these recommendations, we would
keep closely in touch with the EEC and other major importers.
In the meantime, we should have to accept that there might be
some spread in the extent of voluntary restraints for some
non-cotton textiles by countries willing to adopt this method.
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