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**x*x*x*x Preferences
Ref. Your minute of 22 December to Statham, There is little of substance that can be said to Dutch on date of implementation of UK preference offer; there are too many imponderables in the legis- Aative programme arrangements. However, to keep open
rampe useful channels of information, you might say that our implementation by 1 July was unlikely, though we would
hoped to complete process by September or October. We would of course have no objection to the EEC or other/donors implementing their offers on 1 July, though EEC domestic industry could well jib at such implementation in isolation. For your information, we do not therefore see the Dutch initiative prosper- ing.
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With regard to the EEC inclusion of Taiwan and South Korea, it is not, in principle, for the UK to argue for against the inclusion of beneficiare Suite (unless they happen to be members of the Commonwealth by other donors. In general, we would wish to see any burden we carry shared by other donors. If they chose to take on any burden the UK did not share,