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the impediments to trade that exist in the form of legis-

lative or administrative controls over imports in various

countries.

We discussed in Europe the great concern in the

United States about some aspects of the common agricultural

policy of the Common Market countries and we discussed the

matter of textiles.

To go back over these subjects very briefly, on

non-tariff barriers we pointed out the great and growing

concern among American businessmen over such matters as

border taxes in the Common Market countries; the inability

of American companies successfully to do business with

governments and government entities; the difficulties being

encountered by American business under regulations and laws

imposed for reasons of safety and health in other countries;

our concern about growing export subsidies in other countries

and so on.

We made the point, a rather obvious one, that all

of these matters were barriers to trade and we acknowledged

we had some in the United States.

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We expressed great concern over the fact that

there were many obstacles to trade that were imposed by

administrative action in which no one official policy

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existed, but which could, of course, greatly impede the

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traffic and goods.

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