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the impression that we were thinking in terms of a Community of Ten, both in regard to relationships between the members and to the Community's relations with the third world. Sugar for instance needed to be considered not in terms of its being a British problem but as evidence of the attitude of an expanded Community to an im ant part of the third world.
7. Signor Malfatti regardeu this as a very positive approach, good for public opinion, both in the United Kingdom and in the existing Community. The Community's policy towards the third world had consistently been an open-minded one, witness their approach to Generalised UNCTAD. It might be
necessary to think in terms of world wide agree- ments for certain basic products.
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Mr. Rippon said that he had stressed in his speeches the outward-looking nature of the Community. In the negotiations it was a little difficult for us to put forward exact solutions of the problems we had stated, and thus to make a specific demand on the Community. He thought, however, that it would be helpful if we were to suggest possible solutions. This we would do on transitional
periods that afternoon. He agreed with Signor Malfatti about the need for world-wide solutions to world-wide trading problems. There were many worries about protectionism in the world at present, and non-tariff barriers represented perhaps the most difficult impediment to trade. Hong Kong for instance was very worried about the possibility of discrimination against her in favour of South
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