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RESTRICTIONS
restrictions within a year or two of abandoning them
in favour of a tariff. ..e have amongst other
things to decide whether, when we re-adopt
quantitative restrictions, we shall also wish to
Ching jucks
retain a tariff, or the Ditrom Ao be chuty from.
The Secretar of State should be aware-that-the
Department of Trade and Industry, which is
responsible for AE(71)35, has found difficulty in
reconciling its many different departmental interests
in regard to the proposals in this paper. This
accounts-for-its-somewhat-dis-jointed_argument.
ARGUMENT
TIMING OF ADAPTATION
4.
We can accept the argument in the paper that
adaptation should be delayed until 1 January 1974,
since the Community's Generalised Preference Scheme
is expressed in terms of the Common External Tariff,
to which we shall only start to move on that date.
We have reason to suppose that this date for
adaptation will be acceptable to the Community,
provided always that we do not raise too many
difficulties in other fields, which might make them
less forthcoming.
COTTON TEXTILES
$.
We have to decide whether we can accept, as the
Community expects us to do, inclusion from the date
of our entry, i.e., 1 January 1973, in the
Community's arrangements under Article 4 of the Long
Term Arrangement for trade in cotton textiles
(paragraph 9 of the paper). If we do accept this,