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problems were here foreseen.
Duty quotas were for examination
at the official level; once the
facts
duties were established he thought he there
should be no difficulties/about
reaching a solution.
b)
M. Harmel had correctly identified
the key questions. He hoped it would be
possible to open discussion on Community
finance, dairy profucts and sugar by the
end of the year, On the
agricultural transitional period we would
be making proposals in the meeting of Deputies the/ following day. The economic
and financing questions to which
M. Harmel/had alluded were not of course, subjects/ for negotiation but for
discussion in depth. It was clearly
right that they should take place in a
restricted forum. We thought it might
be better to deal with them later rather
tter
than earlier since it was desirable to
dear away some other problems first.
c) He doubted whether it would be
desirable to leave discussion on
Commonwealth questions until next year as M. Harmel had suggested. There was
the question of British public opinion. He himself had recently visited Hong
Kong, Australia, and New Zealand. He
accepted that the Community would
not be prepared to treat Hong Kong
exactly as any other dependent territory. But Hong Kong's problem was that they had