10.
cuts below 1976 sendings will be applied to the dominant
uppliers (Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan.)
This comprehensive approach will be accompanied by a
number of other measures, including particularly a revision
of the 1979 Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) for
textiles to give a greater duty free access. The aim here!
is to offer the suppliers the ability to make greater
profit out of their sendings to the Community.
Commission also hope to redefine rules of origin in a more
restrictive fashion and to obtain Council approval for an
industrial policy for textiles, involving greater use of
social fund and RDF money to aid the Community's textile
areas.
The
10. The whole of the programme is to be conducted under the proviso, firmly stated in the Commission's recommendations that the Community will take unilateral action to impose the necessary quotas against any supplying country or countries which have not signed up a satisfactory bilateral
This will be made extremely agreement by 30 November.
clear to all the Community's negotiating partners. They
will be told they have no choice but to sign.
12.
The Commission are working to an extremely tight timetable.
The detailed figures in the break-down of quotas between
supplying countries have not been supplied in time for
consideration and for recommendations on them to be made
to the Council. They will probably be approved subsequently
at working group and COREPER level. But the Commission may hope to convene a special Council, perhaps composed of
trade Ministers to take the final decision. In any case,
they are insisting that it be taken in time for them to start negotiations in the second week of October. can therefore be expected to press member states hard for
They
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