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TEXTILES: ARTICLE 113 COMMITTEE, 5 DECEMDER.
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1. THE 113 COMMITTE WAS CONFINED TO A DRIEF STATEMENT DY TRAI (COMMISSION) ABOUT RECENT PROGRESS IN BEGOTIATIONS AND ABOUT THE COMMISSION'S APPROACH TO THE TEXTILES COMMITTES. TRAIL REPORTED THAT WITH THE CONCLUSION OF AN UNDERSTANDING WITH YUGOSLAVIA THE COMMUNITY HAS NOW SECURED BILATERAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH ALL THE SUPPLIERS ARTGIONALLY ENVISAGED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SPAIN. NO FURTHER DETAILS OF THESE ARRANGEMENTS WERE HOWEVER GIVEN. REPORT ON THE NEGOTIATIONS WOULD BE GIVEN BY DAVIGNON TO PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES ON FRIDAY (9 DECEMBER) AT WHICH THE COMMISSION HOPED SENIOR TEXTILES OFFICALS FROM CAPITALS WOULD ALSO BE PRESENT.
2. TURNING TO THE TEXTILES COMMITTEE TRAN SAID THAT CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE DILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS HAD COME UNDER FIRE FROM
A NUMBER OF EXPORTING COUNTRIES, HE MENTIONED IN PARTICULAR THE
CONCEPT CF IMPORT PENETRATION, THE BASKET EXTRACTOR AND FLEXIBILITY, THIS CRITICISM MIGHT CONTINUE AT THE TEXTILES COMMITTEE. ALTHOUGH THE COMMUNITY SHOULD KEEP TO ITS POLICY IT SHOULD TRY TO ENSURE THAT ITS PARTNERS WERE NOT TOO BITTER AS A RESULT, HE WOULD RESIST ANY CALL FOR A DEBATE ON THESE MATTERS. DISSENT FROM THIS APPROACH.
3. FOR DISCUSSION IN TEXTILES COMMITTEE, SEE MIFT.
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