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(e)
(b) and (c) have been effectively achieved by,
respectively, a mutual UK/SEC suspension of the
tariff on tea and tropical hardwoods, and EEC
trade agreements with India and Pakistan.
and (f) have been partially achieved by means
of substantial enlargement of the Community
quota arrangements under the LTA (covered by
Article 4 agreements); and by the negotiation..
of voluntary restraint agreements with India and
Pakistan on their exports on jute goods. In
addition, British arrangements for cotton tex-
tiles and jute have substantially changed or are
to be changed.
31. 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 neces-
sayto maintain and develop mutual trade. Since
then Singapore has withdrawn from the Federation;
Brueni never joined it.-
32. The EEC Commission paper on the Common-
wealth of 1970 notes that solutions to the
probelms for these countries raised by our EEC
entry should be sought in terms of global trade
agreements, taking account of developments in th
field of the UNCTAD generalised preference
scheme. The paper also advocates a gradual
application of the CET on their exports to the
UK. We should aim to secure the Community's
agreement to review the position of the Asian
Commonwealth countries when the situation over
UNCTAD becomes clearor, bearing in wind what
happened in 1962. We should ensure that the
CET nil tariff on tea should be bound to the
GATT and not merely suspended.
/Malta