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restrictions not later than 1 January, 1970.
In the 1962 negotiations, the Six were prepared to
negotiate a trade agreement with the proposed Federation
of Malaysia (i.e. Malaysia as now established, Singapore
and Brunei) if the Federation so requested and if this
proved necessary to maintain and develop mutual trade.
Since then singapore has withdrawn from the Federation;
Brunei, which becomes fully independent this year, never
joined it.
52. Mutual UK/EEC suspensions of the tariffs on tea and
tropical hardwoods has gone some way to achieving the aims
of (b) and (c) in paragraph 50. The enlargement of the
Community's quota arrangements on cotton textiles, and
voluntary restraint agreements with India and Pakistan
over jute goods have involved additional restrictions on
their exports to the Community of these products.
536 The EEC Commission paper on the Commonwealth of 1970
notes that solutions to the problems for these countries
raised by our EEC entry should be sought in terms of global
trade agreements, taking account of developments in the
field of the UNCTAD generalised preference scheme. The
paper also advocates a gradual application of the c.e.t. on
their exports to the United Kingdom (as the Commission have
suggested for the developed Commonwealth countries).
540 The extension of generalised preferences by the developed
countries to developing countries has been under consideration
since 1964. Whatever the details eventually agreed for the
scheme, it will be of benefit to all developing countries,
/especially
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