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Action Tuke.
MEETING OF WORKING GROUP ON TEXTILES: 5 SEPTEMBER.
1. THE COMMISSION GAVE AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR CONTACTS WITH THIRD COUNTRIES OVER THE SUMMER AND OF THEIR PLANS FOR DISCUSSION AND ADOPTION OF THE MANDATE FOR THE BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS. THEY INTEND THAT THE COUNCIL ON 19/20 SEPTEMBER SHOULD HAVE A GENERAL DISCUSSION ON IT. THE GERMANS RAISED OBJECTIONS TO THE SECOND .TRANCHE OF UNILATERAL MEASURES ADOPTED BY THE COMMISSION IN
AUGUST AND ANNOUNCED THEIR INTENTION OF RAISING THIS TOO IN THE COREPER AND IN THE COUNCIL, TRAN WILL VISIT LONDON ON FRIDAY PM FOR DISCUSSIONS ON THE MANDATE.
BILATERALS
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TRAN (COMMISSION) REPORTED BRIEFLY ON HIS VISITS TO: INDIA PAKISTAN, THE ASEAN COUNTRIES, HONG KONG, KOREA AND BRAZIL. HIS AIM HAD DEEN TO CONVINCE THEM OF THE NEED TO MAKE SACRIFICES ON QUANTITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF OBTAINING SECURE ACCESS TO THE COMMUNITY MARKET. HE HAD BEEN PARTICULARLY STRUCK BY THE IRRITATION CAUSED BY THE COMMUNITY'S UNILATERAL MEASURES WHICH HAD LED TO A LOSS OF CREDIBILITY AND WAS LIKELY TO GIVE RISE TO RETALIATION BY
SOME OF THE EXPORTERS CONCERNED.
3. TRAN DESCRIBED THE TIMETABLE FOR PREPARATIONS FOR THE BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS. THE COMMISSION WOULD ADOPT THE PROPOSAL FOR A MANDATE COVERING NEGOTIATIONS WITH SOME TWENTY-FIVE COUNTRIES AT ITS MEETING ON 7 SEPTEMBER. HOWEVER, SOME OF THE ANNEXES, INCLUDING THE BREAKDOWN OF QUOTAS RETVEEN SUPPLYING COUNTRIES (AND BETVES MEMBER STATES) WOULD NOT DE READY BY THIS DATE, AND THESE WOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE TO MEMBER STATES, IF POSSIBLE, IN A WEEK OR SO, IN THE COMMISSION'S VIEW THERE SHOULD BE A DISCUSSION ON THE BROAD
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