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Page 3. intervened last, were less enthusiastic but supported the enlarge- ment of GATT in principle as making its work more effective, (India and Yugoslavia had again expressed the view that the GATT should be a universal organisation). They referred particularly to the need for equivalent and reciprocal concessions
nd mentioned that experience gained in finding appropriate solutions for Poland and during the negotiations with Rumania would be a useful guideline.
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Australia (Ryan) pointed cut that detailed information would be needed on Hungary's foreign trade system which was different from that of many Contracting Partics, and suggested that it would be particularly useful for the Working Party (which would presumably be established) to have a study of the effective operation of the Hungarian Customs tariff. This might be prepared by the Secretariat. Canada and we supported this idea: Long was not enthusiastic but said that some such work might be possible when further Hungarian documentation was available.
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The U.S. said they could accept the Secretariat's proposals. They did not raise the variant on them which had been put forward informally (Abbott's letter to Dixon, MAFF, of 16 July). New Zealand mentioned their concern that the mechanism suggested in this paper would not adequately meet the problem to which their proposals at the last Eession had been addressed. They did not think it appropriate to inclu’e among the agricultural non-tariff barriers now to be notified both legal and illegal quantitative restrictions. They remained of the view that the latter should be tackled on a different basis and that the only appropriate solution was climination or waiver.
11. The Chairman took note of the New Zealand point but said that the first stage was to identify the barriers to trade concerned. As regards the types of solution that might be examined he suggested that further discussion would be inappropriate at this stage when informal consultations had not yet indicated any approach that was acceptable to all concerned. The Secretariat proposals, with a small charge of date for the first meeting to 13-15 October, were approved.
12. The revised programite of nectings (set out in C/W/142/Rev.1) was approved without debate. Apart from minor changes of da te the main alteration of significance was that the proposed meeting of the Cotton Textiles Committee between 8-10 September has now been dropped. Long said that this was due to the fact that some Contracting Parties found the date originally proposed inconvenient (which certainly means that the U.S. had said that they would not be ready so soon). No alternative dates have been proposed and informal discussions will take place to determine a timing. However, the present programe for October and November is already over full.
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