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49.
(a) Countries covered by the UNCTAD Preferences Scheme.
These are primarily the countries of the Asian
Commonwealth: India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Malaysia, Singapore,
Nauru and Brunei.
50. The provisional agreement over India, Pakistan and
Ceylon reached in the 1962 negotiations was complex, Its
main features were:
(a) a dcclaration of the willingness of the enlarged
Community to negotiate comprehensive trade
agreements with India, Pakistan and (if she so
wished) Ceylon, with the object of maintaining
and, if possible, increasing the foreign exchange
earnings of these countries and helping to
implement their development plans;
(b) the c.e.t. on tea would be reduced to nil;
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(c) nil tariffs by definitive reduction or suspension
on certain other items (including tropical
products and some sports equipment);
(a) the very gradual application of the common
(0)
external tariff to an agreed list of processed
agricultural products;
special arrangements for the gradual application
of the c.e.t. to cotton textiles and provision
for remedial action if exports fell below a
certain level;
(f) provision for the application of the c.e.t. to
jute goods (excluding heavy jute goods), the
establishment of a British quota for such goods
and the abolition of British quantitative
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