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(ii) Quota Restrictions
8. As far as quotas are concerned, the Community has no
common policy over them. Britain imposes a system of
restraint on her Commonwealth partners in the form of
restrictions on imports of coal, jute, and cotton textiles.
We also operate certain restrictions on foodstuffs both
to give preference to Commonwealth suppliers and to protect
our own market. Adoption of the Common Commercial Policy by
an enlarged Community including the United Kingdom would involve adapting the present quota restriction arrangements of individual countries to a Community regime, This would
undoubtedly have implications for our imports particularly of cotton textiles from developing countries, especially
of the Asian Commonwealth.
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However, since the Common Commercial Policy of the
present Community is still at a formative stage, it is hard
to predict how our entry to the Community would affect our
prosent quota restrictions. (The implications of acceptance of the Community's Common Commercial Folicy are being
considered in a separate paper).
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(iii) Aid
The Treaty of Rome commits the Communities to contribute to the progressive development of the Associated States and the Dependent Territories of Member States. With the
exception of Luxembourg, the EEC Member States, particularly France and Germany, also have bilateral arrangements for aid to developing countries, which they administer independently of each other. Multilateral contributions to this und are
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