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disclose the names of the other countries at this stage.
Requests for negotiations would be limited to"low-cost"
suppliers. It was not the U.S. Government's intention
to seek restraint on imports of woollen goods from the
United Kingdom
9.
Mr. Stewart asked whether and how the U.S.
Government could differentiate between "high" and "low"
cost suppliers. Did the U.S. Government mean it intended
to take discriminatory action against Asian suppliers
and not against European countries? He noted for example
that in square yards equivalent West Germany had in 1968
been the second principal supplier of man made fibre.
textiles to the U.S. and that of the growth in imports
during the period 1966-1968, 1/3rd had come from Japan,
South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong whilst 2/3rds of the
growth had come from other suppliers. Mr. Nehmer pointed
out that the principal imports from West Germany were
n.m.f. yarns which were used in other sectors of the
U.S. textile industry and furthermore, in value terms
West Germany was far from being a principal supplier.
10.
Mr. Nehmer said that it may be necessary later
to seek consultations with some low cost European exporters.
The U.S. Government was concerned with equity in these
matters. With regard to the question of disruption,
he recalled that U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Stans,
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