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establishing a regime of both tariff and
quota protection for cotton textiles, we
are only doing what every other industrialised
country has been doing already for a long
time.
10 The measures I have announced apply only
to cotton textiles. For other textiles, the
Government intend to pursue discussi ns with
other interested Governments as to whether
further international arrangements might be
necessary or desirable to provide safeguards
against á market disruption. In the meantime,
we are ready to act promptly and effectively
under our GATT rights if serious disruption
from imports of non-cotton textiles should
occur in the British market.
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11 In the longer term, we hope to discuss
with our partners in the enlarged European
Community the formulation of a textile trade
R
qually
policy which takes account both of the
interest of developing countries in expanding
their exports of textiles, of the need of the
textile industries here and elsewhere in the
genuine Community to evolve on a basis of dentinuing
competitiveness and of the right of efficient
producers and their workers to safeguards
against disruptive imports.
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