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sort of Community harmony, which many will argue (with differing degree of interest or disinterest) we should be adopting anyway, until our partners agree to move towards another sort. To make the most of our limited power we must be prepared to be awkward and unpopular, provided we do not push this to the point of
counter-productiveness.
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Conclusions
a We should do our utmost to get the Commission to
present a programme for the progressive establishment of genuine free circulation;
b.
C.
We should in any case use occasions as they occur to buy elements of free circulation with concessions on textiles others in the Community may want out of us. What we buy and what we pay must be decided in individual cases, but we should as far as possible look for a comprehensive and systematic as distinct from a wholly piecemeal approach;
We should consider further how to bargin over GSP.
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CT Division
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