13 or the timing of 33C/Hong Kong talks about
1974, we realise that the autumn is late from
a tran point of view, and we would like to see
a picture of the likely quota situation beginning
to emerge during the summer. We can see no reason
however why work on the main lines of this picture
should not proceed in parallel with the multilateral
development of a new Agreement provided we ensure
that you are not forced in the process to sign away
anything that might later turn out to be, its your
right under a new Agreement. In any case, the
amounts and destination of your textile exports to
urope in 1974 are to a large extent predictable from
the present pattern of trade and restraints;
we do
not think that talks later in the year will necessarily
versely affect trade.
4.
Our view remains unchanged, that the extension from
Germany to the Netherlands of some form of multilateral
restraint would have been useful.
But
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be the best judge of what couro to take in the
light of your own domestic difficulties.
5. Your telegram 429 dealt with the Geman
Course,
"additional" quotas. The situation is certainly absurd, in
that this is a purely German problon, yet the
solution is a Community compromise. It was made perfectly
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clear by the Germans, not only on 16 April but also on 2 April when the
subject was first raised in the Comittee and Robin jope confidently gafe
UK consent to their request, that no increase in the
number of pieces was in question. Even the French
understood this. Liz Lowne and Robin Hope were amazed
and appalled at the docile way in which the
German delegates accepted thefatuous compromise
figure of 1250 tonnes.
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