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PROTOCOL
RELATING TO THE RESERVATION ATTACHED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND TO ITS
ACCEPTANCE OF THE LONG-TERM ARRANGEMENT
The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in accordance with the procedure which was agreed by the Cotton Textiles Com- mittee at its meeting from 29 January to 9 February 1962 and which is set out in paragraphs 32 and 33 of the Record of Understandings reached at that meeting, has attached a reservation to its acceptance of this Arrangement. The acceptance, together with the reservation, is in the following terms:
"I have to inform you, on the instructions of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland accept the Long-Term Arrangement for cotton textiles drawn up by the Cotton Textiles Committee at its meeting in Geneva from 29 January to 9 February 1962. This acceptance of the Arrange- ment is in respect of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland only and it is not intended by virtue of this acceptance that the rights and obliga- tions of the Government of the United Kingdom under the Arrangement shall apply in respect of any non-metropolitan territories for the international relations of which they are responsible.
"In accordance with the procedure agreed by the Cotton Textiles Committee, I am instructed to enter a reservation to the effect that the United Kingdom, as a country which complies with the criteria:
(i) that in the decade preceding the entry into force of the Arrangement it has experienced a substantial contraction in its cotton textile industry, and
(ii) that it is importing a substantial volume of cotton textiles, in particular from the less-developed countries and territories and Japan, in relation to its own production of cotton textiles,
accepts no obligation to increase access to the United Kingdom market under the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 3 of Article 2 and paragraphs 2 and 3 of Annex B of the Arrangement."
The United Kingdom reservation has been accepted by all the other parties to the Arrangement, except the Government of Pakistan, which has declared that it is unable to accept the reservation. Notwithstanding the procedures set out in paragraph 33 of the Record of Understandings reached by the Cotton Textiles Committee during its meeting from 29 January to 9 February 1962, the other parties to the Arrangement accept the United Kingdom's acceptance of the Arrangement and the reservation as being valid while taking note of the declara- tion of Pakistan in this connexion.