Long Term Arrangement of the GATT (LTA) and only if
total imports of cotton textiles rose significantly
above the present level and caused disruption to the
market in those particular products".
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recently as 11 October in response to representations
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by the BTEA, Sir John Eden reaffirmed the position
saying that "if evidence was produced after the new
import regime had come into effect that real damage
was being done, whether to the industry as a whole
or to some significant part of it, the Government
would certainly consider what could be done to
remedy the situation.
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there had been time to see how the tariff would work.
art from unemployment,
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10. The lynchpin of the DTI case is that it could
well become known in the Affirmative debate that we
would not be seeking a derogation from the EEC's
increased Article 4 Agreements and this lead to a flood
of low cost imports in 1972. But it is well known
that the EEC has operated a system of qrs and tariffs
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and/our' not seeking a derogation cannot be said to
be a new factor. 1973 quotas will have to be
negotiated in 4972 and would have to be based on
most-recent figures, ie, 1968, 1974 or some average
level must apply And the costs of building up
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