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TO PRIORITY FCO TELNO. 541 OF 1 FEBRUARY INFO PRIORITY BONN
COPENHAGEN DUBLIN THE HAGUE LUXEMBOURG PARIS ROME UKMIS GENEVA
INFO SAVING BRUSSELS (FOR DODGE HONG KONG OFFICE).
NON COTTON TEXTILES,
1. THE TEXTILES GROUP MET ON 30 JANUARY UNDER COMMISSION
CHAIRMANSHIP (PAOLI) TO DISCUSS DETAILS OF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ON NON-COTTON TEXTILES (EXCLUDING RESTRICTIONS ON THE EASTERN AREA)
AND THE COMMISSION'S PROPOSED LIST, DATED 19 SEPTEMBER 1972, OF
SENSITIVE PRODUCTS FOR THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. THE UK WAS
REPRESENTED BY POWNALL (DTI) AND DE FONBLANQUE (UKREP). THE MEETING
WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS, A ROUND-UP OF RESTRICTIONS CURRENTLY
OPERATED BY INDIVIDUAL MEMBER STATES AND THE CONSIDERATION OF A
COMMON SENSITIVE LIST. LITTLE SUBSTANTIVE PROGRESS WAS ACHIEVED
THOUGH SOME INTERESTING INDICATIONS OF NATIONAL POSITIONS (NOTABLY
THE FRENCH) EMERGED.
2. DISCUSSION OF CURRENT RESTRICTIONS WAS BASED ON A 1971
COMMISSION PAPER SUMMARISING THE DEGREE OF LIBERALISATION OF
NON-COTTON TEXTILE IMPORTS THEN ACHIEVED BY THE SIX. AT THE
COMMISSION'S REQUEST WE UNDERTOOK TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON UK
IMPORT RESTRICTIONS FOLLOWING THE FORMAT OF THE PAPER, ALTHOUGH IT WAS ACCEPTED THAT WE COULD NOT DO SO ON THE BASIS OF THE
NIMEXE STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION, POWNALL EXPLAINED THE SCOPE
OF JAPANESE VOLUNTARY RESTRAINT OF THEIR TEXTILE EXPORTS TO THE UK
AND THE ARRANGEMENTS WHICH HAD BEEN PUT INTO EFFECT FOR POLYESTER/
COTTONS FROM HONG KONG, S. KOREA AND TAIWAN, WE AGREED TO SUPPLY TO THE COMMISSION A LIST OF THE PRODUCTS COVERED (USING THE
BRUSSELS NOMENCLATURE AS FAR AS POSSIBLE), QUOTA LEVELS AND
ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS. WE INDICATED THAT WE COULD NOT
SUPPLY THE ACTUAL TEXTS OF AGREEMENTS COVERING ALL THE RESTRAINTS.
DENMARK SIMILARLY UNDERTOOK TO PROVIDE DETAILS OF HER AGREEMENTS,
IRELAND HAD NO BILATERALS, ALL IMPORT RESTRICTIONS HAVING BEEN
IMPOSED UNBILATERALLY BY PUBLISHED NOTICES ISSUED BY THE REVENUE
COMMISSIONERS.
GERMANY EXPLAINED THAT WHILE A WIDE RANGE OF TEXTILES FROM A LONG
LIST OF COUNTRIES WERE SUBJECT OF SPECIFIC LICENCING, LICENCES WERE IN MOST CASES FREELY ISSUED. MAINTAINED ON A LIMITED NUMBER OF
TAIWAN, INDIA, PAKISTAN AND UAR.
COMMISSION. THE FRENCH SAID THAT THEIR AUTHORITIES MAINTAINED/A SERIES
INDIVIDUAL RESTRICTIONS WERE
ITEMS FROM JAPAN, S. KOREA,
DETAILS WOULD BE SENT TO THE
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