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The Community representative undertook to transmit the proposed
amendment to the draft definition to the Nomenclature Committee with
a recommendation for acceptance.
2.
Implementation
The Hong Kong representative accepted that the normal course
would be for Member States to give effect to these definitions in their
own national instructions and that minor differences of timing may occur.
3.
Previous measures
The Community representative said that a statutory definition of
trousers in one member state which was not in accordance with the new
definition would be changed.
4.
Differences in statistical data
The Community representative agreed to a proposal by the Hong Kong
delegation, under Article 7 of the Agreement, that an investigation should
proceed into differences between Hong Kong and U.K. statistics for category 5.
5. Hong Kong request to transfer unused quantities
The Community representative said that the Hong Kong request would accentuate problems of concentration in certain regions and could therefore
not be accepted. As an earnest of goodwill the United Kingdom delegation
was however prepared to concede exceptionally that a consignment of 50,000 pairs of jeans, samples of which had been examined, could be regarded as falling in category 76 as working clothes, notwithstanding the view, which was still held, that garments of this kind should normally be classified in category 6..
6.
"Blousons"
This question arose as a result of a request by Hong Kong to adapt the restraint levels for category 21 to take account of the fact that "blousons" will now be included in this category in all Member States. The Community representative recalled that Hong Kong had asked for the following supplements to category 21 (pieces) representing the quantities of "blousons", other than coated, which H.K. claimed to have shipped in 1976 :