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makes in negotiations over the common agricultural
policy. Problems of sugar producers are dealt with in
nother negotiating brief. British Ministers have given
their Caribbean counterparts an undertaking on bananas
that "if the Caribbean Commonwealth Government countries
were to become associated with the EEC, the British
Government would seek rights for them equivalent to the
special arrangements already operating within the EBC for
traditional suppliers". These special arrang ments range
from a protocol to the Rome Treaty allowing duty free
entry into Germany for bananas, to strict import controls
operated by France in favour of her former Colonial
Territories. This commitment is, of course, not a
negotiating objective.
This is sabun
32. The Germans and Dutch have expressed concern to us
that the United States may oppose association with
the enlarged Community of the Commonwealth countries of the
Caribbean. There have been no signs so far of such
opposition on the part of the United States, but the
possibility of this emerging at a later stage should be
borne in mind.
33. The problem of applying the standstill period to our
tariff and non-tariff treatment of imports from the
developing countries of the Commonwealth which are regarded
as candidates for association is a complex one. In respect
of those countries which wish to seek association, it will
be our aim to get it agreed that the common external
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