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TO PRIORITY FCO TELNO. 4563 OF 24 SEPTEMBER, 1974.
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MEETING OF WORKING GROUP ON GENERALISED PREFERENCES: 23 SEPT.
THE CHAIRMAN'S AIM WAS TO ELICIT FIRST REACTIONS BY DELEGATIONS
TO THE MAIN FEATURES IN THE COMMISSION'S PROPOSAL FOR THE CENERAL 100
AN AGENDA ANALYSING THE MAIN HEADS OF
PREFERENCE SCHEME FOR 1975.
THE REFERENCE FOR SPEAKERS AND THE DISCUSSION, WHILE NOT GETTING DOWN TO DETAIL, WAS USEFUL AND MODERATELY ENCOURAGING,
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
2.
THERE WAS FAIRLY GENERAL SUPPORT, SUBJECT TO THE NEED FOR FURTHER STUDY, FOR THE CHANGES PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSION OR DEPTH
THE ITALIANS HOWEVER OF TARIFF CUT AND FOR EXTENDING THE LIST.
SAID THAT THERE HAD BEEN MUCH PROGRESS' LAST YEAR AND THAT THE COMMUNITY SHOULD NOT BE TOO AMBITIOUS. THE FRENCH COULD NOT ACCEPT
THE COMMISSION'S PROPOSAL ON HONEY AND PUT A RESERVE ON THE INCLUSION OF AUCHOVIES. THERE WAS NO STATED OPPOSITION TO THE COMMISSION'S PROPOSALS ON PINEAPPLES OR COCOA BUTTER AND SOLUBLE COFFEE, ON SHRIMPS AND PRAWNS THE COMMISSION CIRCULATED AN AMENDMENT TO THEIR PREVIOUS PROPOSAL BASED ON THE INFORMATION WE HAD
SUPPLIED ABOUT THE DIFFERENT SPECIES CAUGHT BY AFRICAN AND ASIAN COUNTRIES RESPECTIVELY. ON THE PRODUCTS WHICH THE COMMISSION HAVE PROPOSED TO INCLUDE SUBJECT TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE PROTOCOL
THEY SAID 22 NCCOTIATIONS THE FRENCH RESERVED THEIR POSITION,
IT WOULD BE MUCH EASIER FOR THEM TO ACCEPT THESE PROPOSALS AT THE
RATHER TIME WHEN THE NEW PROTOCOL 22 ARRANGEMENTS CAME INTO FORCE,
THE OUTCH AND BELGIANS ALSO HAD THAN AGREEING THEM IN ADVANCE.
RESERVES OF A TECHNICAL NATURE ON THE PROPOSAL TO HITRODUCE SPECIFIC THE IRISH SAID THEY HAD RESERVES ON SIA DUTIES FOR THESE PRODUCTS,
PRODUCTS. IN THE COMMISSION'S PROPOSALS.
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