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we cannot go back on our long-announced policy, Mine aloms no lien omic meason for accepting In selling the change from quotas to tariffs, we have
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argued the working towards liberalisation in that tariffs would enable reasonably efficient developing countries to maintain, if not increase, their trade.
To go back on these arguments, even before we have
had experience of tariffs, would be a denial of the
frequent affirmations of the new policy we have
Andufahing
given specific admitments to all, the host sperpicking
India
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British Ministers and officials have given
several reaffirmations "of our intention to restrict
protection for our industry to tariffs from.
1 January 1972; the main statements to this effect
(the most recent of which was one by the Secretary
of State at a meeting with the Indian Prime Minister
on 1 November) are in Annex B.
NOTHING TO BE WRITRGIN
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the tariff and the quota; the aim was to induce
UK industry to live with the tariff alone
in and Commonwealth Secretary said at
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