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Poorer developing countries
8.
removal
we did not yet very far with our proposal or freeing ell poorer developing
Tran's route to the same countries from uote and butoir e ntrols in 1975. objective is for 1975, 50 butoirs for all non-su ercompetitive c ́untries, of butoirs in 1976 and removing ceilings by 19.7, in the expectation that as
wan to progressive Member States saw how undramatic the trade response of PDC's
It is certainly difficult to argue relaxations they would more easily accept them. that PDC's trade cannot be accomodated within what the Comalssion proposes, though that is no reason to stop pushing our proposal.
Action
3. The Commission's proposals will be discussed et the ad hoc meeting in Brussels
There will also on May 17. »ẹ shall respond to these on well-established lines. be circulated from Brussels a detailed product by product schedule of the sensitive list, showing one supposes current levels of imports of items proposed for liberation. We shall have to consider cow to deal with this when it arrives. Apart from that, it seems to me that little preparator work is needed, apart from producing figures to demonstrate the damage in practice that the German suggestion of sub-dividing butoirs would involve.
10. I do wonder whet er we shouldn't try to work up some supplementary lines of Approach on Hong Kong - perhaps lobbying in capitals once we have acquainted ourselves a bit more with the substance of other member states' objections, and the arguments of fact, as well as principle, that, for both textiles and footwear that can
I wonder be advanced on Hong Kong's behalf, Might CT or PSD have any suggestions? too whether we cannot do more to counteract the notion that Hong Kong is not a developing country despite her dynamic export performance and rel:tively high per capita CP, there must surely be other development criteria where she does not score so high would ODM or PCJ have any ideas?
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