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the totality of imports for all products, and
particularly for the sensitive products, must
be kept within the internal global
import ceilings which the Community
is now in the process of agreeing.
3. It is essential, as the Commission recognised,
that the bilateral negotiations be conducted with all
possible despatch. The UK notes with satisfaction the
Commission's commitment to take unilateral action on
1 January 1978 against any relevant supplying country
with which a bilateral agreement has not been concluded
by 30 November. The Community's determination must be
fully deployed throughout the bilateral negotiations.
supplying countries must not be allowed to lose sight
of this fact.
The
4. Naturally, like other delegations, the UK has
particular points which will be raised in the discussions
at Working Group and COREPER level, which will continue
until the negotiations open. These preoccupations can
and must be met in the drawing up of the all-important
detailed annexes to the Commission's mandate. Our experts
will naturally need to pay the closest attention to the
figures, which they have not yet seen, for the quotas to
be granted for individual products to individual supplying
countries. Like other Member States, we will have our own
views on which supplying countries should be treated more
leniently and which more harshly. We shall want to pay
particular attention to the growth rates which are to be
applied to the different categories of textile products.
In this context, we must underline that the UK industry
faces particularly serious difficulties in the cotton
sector.
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