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CONFIDENTIAL
BACKGROUND
12.
It is one of our renegotiation objectives to
secure substantial improvements in the Community's
Generalised Scheme of Freferences. A copy of the
relevant extract from the Secretary of State's state-
ment to the Council of Ministers on 4 June in Luxembourg
is attached. (It has already been agreed at working
level that the UK should continue to import jute and
coir products free of duty).
13. The EEC scheme is reviewed each year. The scheme
to operate in 1975 has to be decided by the Council
Giro Joanei by the end of the year.
Discussion so far
at working level has been on the basis of Commission
proposals which involve a considerable step forward in
the usefulness of the scheme to developing, and
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especially the poorer developing, countries.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
14. In the agricultural sector the Commission has
proposed a small increase in the tariff cut and some
additions to the scheme's coverage. It is proposed
that products which were important for the Protocol 22
countries should not be included until the new
Convention of Association comes into force.
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS
15. In the industrial sector the Commission have
proposed that the 'sensitive" products be reduced from
53 to 13. These are products on which there are pre-
determined quotas for imports into the Community as a
whole and which are divided into quotas for each member
state. The CCT is reimposed when the quotas are
Products dropped from the list become
exhausted.
subject to the arrangements for "semi-sensitive"
products. In this category there are again predetermined
/ceilings