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11.
At the same time it would undoubtedly
help vis-a-vis both the Community and the
developing countries if we were to bring
textiles in general within the scope of our
UNCTAD CPS Offer on the basis of duty-free
quotas after the pattern of the EEC's offer. Ministers rejected this proposition a year ago because of the difficulties it would
bring with the UK textile industry.
But
we are going to have to adapt to the EEC's
gement
GPS arrangements in any case from the
beginning of 1974, and the objections to
the inclusion of textiles in our GPS offer
would largely fall away if quantitative
restrictions were, re imposed before then.
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