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9. THE COMMISSION SAID THEY WOULD SHORTLY BE PUTTING FORWARD
PROPOSALS ON TEXTILES, THEY SAID THAT SINCE IT WAS HOW CLEAR THAT THE BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS WOULD NOT BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE END OF
THE YEAR THEY WOULD BE PROPOSING FOR 1975 A CONTINUATION OF THE PRESENT ARRANGEMENTS WITH INCREASES IN TARIFF QUOTAS OF 5% BUT WITHOUT ANY CHANGE IN THE LIST OF BENEFICIARIES. WE SAID WE WERE SURPRISED AND DISAPPOINTED AT THIS INDICATION THAT THEY WOULD NOT
NOW BE PROPOSING THE INCLUSION OF HONG KONG FOR SOME TEXTILE PRODUCTS AT LEAST AND RE-ITERATED THE NEED FOR THE PROGRESSIVE
ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST HONG KONG, ON FOOTWEAR NO DELEGATION OPPOSED THE INCLUSION OF HONG KONG BUT THE FRENCH SAID THERE SHOULD BE A BUTOIR OF 18%. THE GERMANS ALSO SAID THAT THE PROPOSED BUTOIR OF 20% WAS TOO HIGH. THE COMMISSION SAID THAT A NUMBER OF FOOTWEAR PRODUCTS OF INTEREST TO HONG KONG CURRENTLY ON THE NON-SENSITIVE LIST HAD BEEN LEFT CUT OF THEIR PROPOSAL BY MISTAKE AND WOULD BE RE-INCLUDED, THE IRISH RESERVED THEIR POSITION ON THE FOOTWEAR PROPOSAL AND SAID THEY SHOULD HAVE A DEROGATION UNDER PROTOCOL 23 OF THE ACCESSION TREATY.
19. THE FRENCH THOUGHT THAT THE COMMISSION'S PROPOSALS FOR ROMANIA WENT TOO FAR IN THE DIRECTION OF INCLUDING PRODUCTS WHICH HAD BEEN EXCLUDED THIS YEAR. IT MIGHT HOWEVER BE POSSIBLE TO FIND
SOME PRODUCTS ON THE PRESENT YEAR'S SENSITIVE LIST FOR WHICH ROMANIA -
COULD BE INCLUDED PROVIDED THE EXCLUSIONS FOR CHEMICAL AND OTHER PRODUCTS REMAINED.
11. LITTLE ENTHUSIASM WAS SHOWN FOR THE PROPOSED COMMUNITY RESERVE FOR THE RESIDUAL SENSITIVE PRODUCTS. THE GERMANS MAINTAINED
THAT THE TRANSFER OF NUMEROUS PRODUCTS TO THE SEMI-SENSITIVE LIST CONSTITUTED A MAJOR STEP TOWARDS A COMMUNITY RESERVE BY IN EFFECT
ELIMINATING THE NEED TO HAVE ONE.
12. WE STATED OUR CASE FOR AN INCREASE IN THE TARIFF QUOTA FOR
PLYWOOD FOR 1974 AND IT WAS AGREED THAT THIS WOULD BE LOCKED AT
ALONG WITH TOBACCO NEXT WEEK. WE ALSO SAID THAT WE WOULD DE SEEKING
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COMMISSION'S 1975 PROPOSALS FOR PLYWOOD,
13. THE COMMISSION INITIATED A BRIEF DISCUSSION ON THE PROBLEM OF
CUPULATIVE ORIGIN WHICH HAO PEEN DISCUSSED THE WEEK BEFORE BY THE
ORIGIN COMMITTEE. THE FRENCH SAID THEY SAW MAJOR TECHNICAL
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