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9.
Mr Rippon could say that we are working with our partners
in the Community towards a common policy on textiles. This has
to take into account the fact that the UK's textile imports
from developing countries are proportionately far greater than
those of the Six.
10. We are urging them to move towards free circulation of
textile goods within the Community, and the adoption of genuine
Community Quotas for imports, possibly on a pan-fibre basis,
but we recognise that this can only come about gradually.
Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department
August 1972
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