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5. THERE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN SOME DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE WAY THE AMERICAN CASE ON TEXTILES WAS PRESENTED BY MR. STANS HIMSELF AND BY OFFICIALS AT LOWER LEVEL MEETINGS. AT THE STANS LEVEL IT WAS MADE CLEAR THAT THE PROBLEM WAS POLITICAL: IT WAS NOT CLAIMED THAT THERE WAS MAJOR ECONOMIC DIFFICULTY NOW, ALTHOUGH THERE MIGHT BE IN THE FUTURE. AT LOWER LEVEL MEETINGS HOWEVER IT WAS CLAIMED (FOR EXAMPLE BY NEHMER) THAT THERE WAS REAL ECONOMIC TROUBLE NOW AND REFERENCE WAS MADE TO THE CLOSURE OF A FIRM IN TEXAS: TO WHICH THE COMMISSION REPLIED THAT SOME FIFTY COMMUNITY TEXTILE FIRMS HAD RECENTLY CLOSED. NEHMER ALSO CONTENDED THAT THE SITUATION ON NON-COTTON TEXTILES NOW WAS THE SAME AS THAT ON COTTON TEXTILES IN 1961. WHEN TAXED WITH THE PROVISION IN THE LTA ABOUT ITS NON-APPLICABILITY IN OTHER FIELDS, HE DISCOUNTED
THIS. JR
6. THE COMMISSION HAVE INFORMED THE MEMBER STATES OF THEIR CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. STANS,
F C O PASS PRIORITY TO WASHINGTON UKMIS GENEVA ROUTINE TO BONN THE HAGUE PARIS ROME AND SAVING TO LUXEMBOURG.
MR. JACKSON
REPLATED AS REQUESTED/
INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION
COMMODITIES DEPT.
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