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Our great concern is that the lists are going to
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These lists have been received by GATT and they
are now being examined and tabulated and checked out. This
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is the first step of this kind and it was initiated by the
United States Government sometime ago.
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be only partially complete because they will deal with
formal legislated, or regulated, non-tariff barriers.
We are concerned as well with the invisible
barriers, the ones that happen just by administrative delay
or decision, that is not based on any published knowledge
or information and for this reason, we want to get all of
that on the table as well so that we think it will be some
time until possibly next year before all of the information
on the non-tariff barriers can be available.
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be done.
At that time we suggested three things ought to
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First, each country ought to take a look at its
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Secondly, it might be possible for some to be
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negotiated bilaterally, and
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Third, if there were a great many of them left
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they might very well be negotiated under a multilateralTM
arrangement, under the auspices of GATT, in the same general
manner as the Kennedy Round was negotiated for tariff ̈
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