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under the Ija
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that the Government should be prepared to
re-impose quotas on particular sectors under the
Long Term Cotton Textile Arrangement of the
G.A.T.T. of any successor arrangement in proved
cases of market disruption.]
6. U.K. imports of cotton textiles have
reached as much as 53 per cent of total domostic
consumption, the major part being importa fraIA
the developing countries.
This is a far higher
proportion than in any other major developed
country. In these circumstances, faced with
the alternative of continuing the unsatisfactory
quota arrangements and of relying for permanent)
protection on a tariff which would be broadly in
line with those of other developed countries,
the Government have decided that the sensible
course would be to replace the quotas by a
tariff on imports from the Commonwealth on the
lines proposed by the Textile Council. and to
hold quotas on particular sectors under the
Long Term Arrangement in reservez.
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increased imports gave
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dorption in portuales sites of the trade.