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THE DURATION OF THE AGREEMENT WOULD BE 1973 ONLY WITH PROVISION
FOR EXTENSION BY A YEAR IF THE LTA WERE PROLONGED IN WHICH CASE THE
COMMUNITY'S AGREEMENT ON COTTONS UNDER THE LTA SHOULD ALSO SE
EXTENDED. THE AGREEMENT WOULD ALSO BE SUBJECT TO ADAPTATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY MULTI-LATERAL AGREEMENT ON TEXTILES. THIS PROPOSA
WAS AGREED.
4. THE COMMISSION DISTRIBUTED A SERIES OF STATISTICAL TABLES AS A
BASIS FOR DISCUSSION OF THE SENSITIVE LIST. THEY ENVISAGED A SYSTEM
OF NINE GLOBAL QUOTAS ON 4-FIGURE TARIFF HEADINGS WITH A TOTAL OF 15
SPECIFIC QUOTAS ON 6-FIGURE TARIFF HEADINGS WITHIN THE GLOBAL
QUOTAS. THERE WAS LITTLE SERIOUS DISCUSSION OF THE DETAILS OF THE
LIST WHICH DELEGATIONS HAD NOT HAD TIME TO STUDY, WE SAID THAT WE DID NOT CONSIDER THAT THE DATA PRODUCED BY THE COMMISSION (WHICH
CONSISTED OF IMPORT FIGURES) PROVIDED ANY EVIDENCE OF MARKET
DISRUPTION AND THAT WE WERE THEREFORE UNABLE TO TAKE A POSITION CH
THE LIST. WE COULD ONLY AGREE TO RESTRICTIONS ON SPECIFIC PRODUCTS
IF THEY COULD BE JUSTIFIED ON THE BASIS OF CONCRETE EVIDENCE OF
MARKET DISRUPTION FOR THOSE PRODUCTS. THIS STAND WAS FULLY
SUPPORTED BY THE GERMANS, WE WENT ON TO SAY THAT WE WERE OPPOSED TO
RESTRICTIONS ON GOODS WHICH WERE SENSITIVE FOR ONE PARTICULAR
REGION OF THE COMMUNITY BEING AUTOMATICALLY APPLIED TO THE COMMUNITY
AS A WHOLE. WE WERE ALSO OPPOSED TO THE FIXING OF RESTRICTIONS AT
UNREALISTICALLY LOW LEVELS AS HAD BEEN DONE IN THE COMMUNITY'S COTTON
AGREEMENTS, THE DANES SUPPORTED OUR VIEWS ON THESE POINTS. THE
GERMANS SAID THEY COULD NOT SUPPORT A SOLUTION INVOLVING NATIONAL
MEASURES BY MEMBER STATES WHICH WOULD BE A BLOW AGAINST THE COMMON COMMERCIAL POLICY. THE COMMISSION (PACLI) WONDERED WHETHER SOME
SYSTEM OF COMMUNITY QUOTAS WITH BUTOIRS' FOR MEMBER STATES WOULD
NOT BE POSSIBLE BUT DID NOT ELABORATE ON THIS IDEA. THE ITALIANS
ARGUED FOR A SAFEGUARD CLAUSE COVERING ALL TEXTILE PRODUCTS IN
ORDER TO DEAL WITH THE PRODUCTS WHICH WERE NOT CURRENTLY SENSITIVE
BUT MIGHT BECOME SO. THEY WERE NOT OPPOSED TO NATIONAL MEASURES.
THE RELCIANS AND DUTCH INDICATED THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE COMMISSION'S
PROPOSAL, SUBJECT TO POSSIBLE MODIFICATIONS OF DETAIL THEY ACCEPTED
THE COMMISSION'S DRAFT SENSITIVE LIST AND THEY WERE PREPARED TO
PROVIDE FULL DOCUMENTATION AS EVIDENCE OF MARKET DISRUPTION AS THEY
HAD DONE IN THEIR NEGOTIATIONS WITH HONG KONG IN 1970.
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