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10. I know that Australian opinion is worried
about some aspects of Community policy,
particularly about the Common Agricultural
Policy. We understand that very well,
though we shall accept the Common Agricultural
Policy which is part of the fabric of the
existing Community.
But in the long run, as
Community countries have made clear, they
are as anxious as anyone to remove the
anomalies, and particularly to solve the
Surfluses
problem of quxfades, the disposal of
which is now a matter of concern to you.
11. I do not deny that there are serious
problems but the problems are not of anything
like the same order of importance as the
opportunities. Among these opportunities
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I list high the opportunities for trade and
business which an expanded and dynamic
Community will offer to the whole world
including Australia. In this context I do
not think you should underestimate the funda-
mentally liberal attitude of the Community
to international trade in general, in its
willingness shown Totably in the Kennedy
Round to cut the Common External Tariff to
very low levels. I believe that this liberal
policy will continue and develop. The record
of the Communities in terms of trade and aid
with the developing world has also been impres-
sive. Recently, so far as aid is concerned,
some of them have been able to give more
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