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27.
The customs union between these
territories and South Africa rules out the
possibility of association for them, since
they could not reduce their tariffs vis-à-
vis the enlarged Community. There is a
further difficulty, in that it would be
virtually impossible to distinguish, for
Community purposes, the exports of the
former High Commission territories from
those of South Africa. This was
recognised in 1962 and it was accordingly
agreed that they should be eligible for a
Morocco-type protocol (see paragraph 9
above) which would ensure the free entry
of their exports into Britain but not into
the other markets of the enlarged Community.
However such Protocols have since been
superseded, and there is no reason to
suppose that the Community would look
kindly on the suggestion being repeated.
28. We should not aim, in the case of the
former High Commission territories, to
secure more than the gradual application
of tariffs and levies over whatever
transitional periods are negotiated.
(iv) Rhodesia
29. We should put the Six on notice at the
appropriate time in the negotiations that
we might wish to raise the question of
Rhodesia when she returned to
constitutional rule.
(v) India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Malaysia,
Singapore, Nauru and Brunei
30. The provisional agreement over India
Pakistan and Ceylon reached in the 1962
negotiations was complex. Its main
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