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The confidential understanding noted that trade agreements
"could provide for tariff changes". In the case of trade
agreements such changes would have to be on an m.f.n. basis.
Another part of the understanding indicated that if Nigeria
or Tanganyika should express a preference for negotiations
on any one of these three bases (see paragraph 15 above) they
should be allowed to open negotiations on that basis.
But
the French insisted that the Communities must have some say
in which of the alternatives could be applied for by other
countries.
18. A paper by the EEC Commission on Commonwealth problems
of our entry was sent to the Council of Ministers in March
1970. It listed those independent developing countries of
the Commonwealth of Africa and the Caribbean who might be
covered by the 1961-63 provisional arrangements for association:
Botswana, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria,
Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Mauritius,
Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago. (This leaves
in doubt the cases of Fiji, Western Samoa and Tonga).
should be noted that these views of the EEC Commission will
not necessarily be acceptable to the Council of Ministers.
It
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