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IFC IMMEDIATE UKREP BRUSSELS
GATT TEXTILES COMMITTEE
FOLLOWING FROM DELEGATION
SUMMARY
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1. THE 113 COMMITTEE MET AT 9.73 AM THIS MORNING. THE COMMISSION (LUYTEN AND LATER KLARIC) REPORTED ON DISCUSSIONS THAT HAD BEEN TAKING PLACE BEHIND-THE-SCENES BETWEEN THE IMPORTING AND EXPORTING
COUNTRIES ON THE TEXT OF A PROTOCOL FOR RENEWAL OF THE MEA.
EACH SIDE HAD MORE OR LESS REACHED AGREEMENT ON HAT IT WANTED:
IT REMAINED TO BE SEEN WHETHER THE TWO SIDES COULD AGREE WITH EACH OTHER. LONG (CHAIRMAN OF TEXTILES COMMITTEE) WOULD DE SEEING EACH SIDE SEPERATELY (AND POSSIBLY ALSO TUGETHER) DURING THE
REMAINDER OF THURSDAY AND ON FRIDAY MORNING. IN THE LIGHT OF THESE CONTACTS HE MIGHT CALL A TEXTILES COMMITTEE TOMORROW (FRIDAY)
AFTERNOON.
DISCUSSION
2. THE COMMISSION'S REPORT ON THE DISCUSSION OF THE PROTOCOL
WAS VERY UNSATISFACTORY. KLARTC DECLINED TO SHOW MEMBER STATES
A TEXT ON THE GROUNDS THAT IT WAS CONSTANTLY BEING REVISED. THEN PRESSED, HE EVENTUALLY DIVULGED THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS
WHICH HE SAID HAD DEEN AGREED AMONG THE IMPORTING COUNTRIES (INCLUDING PROBABLY JAPAN):
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(4) SIGNATORIES OF THE PROTOCOL WOULD REFRAIN AS FAR AS POSSIBLE FROM RECOURSE TO THE PROVISIONS SET OUT IN SUC-PARA 3 CF PARA 5 AT COM.TEX/:/44 (IE QUOTE THE POSSIBILITY OF JOINTLY AGREED REASONABLE DEPARTURES FROM PARTICULAR ELEMENTS !!! PARTICULAR CASES UN UOTE) :
CONFIDENTIAL /(B) IF THERE
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