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Quantitative Restrictions
The Associated States are to benefit from the Community's regime for the elimination of quantitative restrictions among
the Six. In return, the Associates are required to abolish
progressively quantitative restrictions on imports from the
EEC within a period of four years from the entry into force of
the Convention, and they are also prohibited from introducing
any new quantitative restrictions. Nevertheless they may,
subject to consultation in the Association Council, retain or
introduce restrictions against the EEC if the provisions for
maintaining import duties are insufficient to meet their
development or industrialisation needs, or for balance of
payments reasons, or, in the case of agricultural products, to
meet requirements arising from regional market organisations.
Other International Obligations
Under Article 61 of the Convention, the EEC member states
undertake to extend the benefits of the removal of duties and
quantitative restrictions among themselves to those Associates
who, because of prior international obligations, are not yet able
to offer the EEC reciprocity of tariff treatment.. The position
in such cases is, however, to be reviewed not later than three
years after the entry into force of the Convention. (This
provision was probably included to cover the position of the
former Belgian Congo territories in relation to the Congo Basin Treaties.)
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