CONFIDENTIAL

Affirmative Resolution introducing the Commonwealth textile

tariff (now likely to be held in the week beginning

22 November) it will be necessary to circulate a paper

very quickly to the Economic Policy Committee, and certainly

not later than 15 November.

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d.

You are asked to decide:

a.

which of the Options 1 to 4 should be followed for cotton textiles;

b.

if you choose Option 3 or 4, whether yarn should be excluded;

C.

whether to maintain the duty relief mentioned in paragraph 12;

whether to endorse the line for non-cotton textiles suggested in puragraph 2.

ADiley

P W RIDLEY CT Division

11 November 1971

MT Rm 1107 Ex 198

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