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TO IMMEDIATE FCO TEL NO 4485 OF 7/7
INFO PRIORITY UKMIS GENEVA
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COMMITTEE OF PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES (AMBASSADORS)-7 JULY 1977
OTHER BUSINESS: TEXT ILES
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1. CASPARI (COMMISSION) DESCRIBED THE TEXTILE MEASURES AGREED
YESTERDAY BY THE FULL COMMISSION. THE DETAILS OF HIS STATEMENT ARE
SET OUT IN MIFT.
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CASPARI SAID THAT, FOLLOWING CONSULTATIONS ON 21, 23 AND 29 JUNE, AT WHICH MISGIVINGS HAD BEEN EXPRESSED BY TWO MEMBER STATES AND THE COMMISSION ABOUT THE FRENCH MEASURES, THE COMMISSION HAD NOW TAKEN CERTAIN DECISIONS OF PRINCIPLE. THESE DECISIONS PROVIDED FOR REDUCTIONS IN TEXTILE IMPORTS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THIS YEAR FROM A NUMBER OF MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES AND MFA SIGNATORIES. THE COMMISSION WOULD MAKE THE NECESSARY FORMAL PROPOSALS TO THE COUNCIL NEXT WEEK, BY WHICH TIME HE HOPED THAT SOME AT LEAST OF THE MEASURES WOULD BE IN FORCE.
3. VAN DER MEULEN (BELGIAN PRESIDENCY) SAID THAT HE HAD LONG FORESEEN THAT THE OVER-GENERAOUS TEXTILE POLICIES OF THE COMMUNITY WOULD LEAD TO A RESULT OF THIS KIND. DE NANTEUIL (FRANCE) NOTING THAT THE PROPOSED TREATMENT VAR IED FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY, ASKED WHAT STEPS WERE BEING TAKEN TO STOP INDIRECT IMPORTS. CASPARI SAID THAT THE MEASURES PROPOSED FLOWED FROM THE VARIED STRUCTURE OF THE COMMUNITY'S TEXTILE AGREEMENTS, WHICH IN. TURN REFLECTED THE FACT THAT THERE WAS NO REAL COMMUNITY TEXTILE MARKET. THE COMMISSION WOULD TAKE ALL NECESSARY STEPS TO PREVENT
DISTORTIONS OF TRADE.
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