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SMALL COUNTRIES. THE PRICE WAS THEREFORE WORTH PAYING, A FEW TONS HERE AND THERE WOLD STILL LEAVE THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THE UK WITH 1982 IMPORTS WELL BELOW THIS YEAR'S LEVEL. UNLESS MEMBER STATES COULD NOWE FLEXIBLE, THEY MUST BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE COLLAPSE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS: INDEED, THE COUNCIL MUST HAVE KNOWN THAT THE DIRECTIVE IT WAS IMPOSING ON THE COMMISSION WAS, FOR COTTON YARN, UNWORKABLE,
3. THE COMMISSION WERE GENERALLY CRITICIZED FOR THEIR APPROACH. THE GERMANS ASKED WHY, IF THE COMMISSION HAD EXPECTED THEIR DIRECTIVE FOR COTTON YARN GROWTH RATES TO BE UNNEGOTIABLE, THEY HAD NOT SAID SO AT THE COUNCIL. WE WONDERED (AND THE FRENCH, BELGIAN AND ITALIAN DELEGATIONS VOICED SIMILAR THOUGHTS) WHERE THIS ROAD WOULD TAKE US: A MERE WEEK AFTER THE COUNCIL, THE COMMISSION WERE ASKING US TO ABANDON THE GLOBAL CEILINGS FIXED BY MINISTERS AND THIS FOR THE FIRST TWO OR THREE COUNTRIES. TO START, AT THIS EARLY STAGE, TO MAKE SUCH CONCESSIONS COULD NOT FAIL TO SET HIGHLY DANGEROUS PRECEDENTS FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE IMPORTANT EXPORTERS SUCH AS TURKEY, INDIA AND PAKISTAN, THE UPSHOT COULD RE COMMUNITY GROWTH RATES WILL BEYOND THE CEILING STIPULATED IN THE DIRECTIVE.
4. IT WAS LEFT THAT THERE WOULD BE INFORMAL DISCUSSION OF THE PROBLEM BETWEEN THE COMMISSION AND MEMBER STATES' DELEGATIONS.
(11) BILATERALS
SINGAPORE.
5. THE COMMISSION (PACHT) REPORTED THAT AN AGREED MINUTE WOULD BE INITIALLED THAT EVENING COVERING GROWTH RATES AND QUOTAS ON ALL PRODUCTS IN GROUP 1 AND SOME PRODUCTS IN GROUP 2. THE SINGAPOREANS HAD ASKED, AND THE COMMISSION HAD AGREED, THAT THERE SHOULD BE THE MINIMUM OF PUBLICITY FOR THIS AGREEMENT. THE AGREEMENT INCORPORATED REGIONAL RESTRAINTS FOR THE UK ON ACRYLIC YARN, AND ON MEN'S OVERCOATS AND WOMEN'S WOVEN SUITS THOUGH IT WAS FAIR TO SAY ON
THE TWO LAST ITEMS THAT THE VERY SMALL ACCESS ALLOWED TO THE UK MARKET UNDER THESE RESTRAINTS HAD BEEN TREATED WITH SOME CONTEMPT
BY THE SINGAPOREANS.
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