CODE 18-77
PARRY
MR CROMPTON
RECER
IND
No
OFFICE
1070
cc
Reference
Miss Lowne
Mr Brewer
Mr Drescher
Mr Kelland
Mr Poole
Mr Reardon
Mr Webster
Mr Gardiner G
Mr. McChiney
PE RY Mr Greenwood G Action Teken Mrs Taylor ILB
Mr Murray CRE1
Mr McCluney FCO(EID) Miss Cowley UKREP
79
TEXTILE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
BRUSSELS, 10 OCTOBER 1978
Mr Webster will be reporting separately on the consultations with the Philippines and the preceding coordination meeting, which together took up most of the day and resulted in many of the items on the original agenda not being discussed.
2. India. The Commission informed member states of the outcome of their recent consultations with the Indians in Delhi. The Indians had agreed to limit their exports of trousers (category 6) to the UK in 1978 to 110,000 pieces but would not agree to a restraint for the period 1979-82. The Indian authorities will start issuing export certificates from 18 October. During the consultations the Commission also raised the Community's problems concerning folkloric products and the difficulties the UK was experiencing from imports of jerseys (category 5) and regenerated filament yarn (category 42). A further meeting with the Indian authorities is likely either in the last week of October or the first week of November at which these
matters could be discussed in more detail. The Commission undertook to provide the Committee with copies of the Note Verbale that had been sent to the Indians detailing the transfers of quotas among me aber states that had recently taken place.
3. Romania and South Korea. Several member states (not the UK) raised problems concerning imports from Romania and South Korea and as a resul the Commission are now arranging consultations with both suppliers. The Commission confirmed, in response to a question from the UK, that singlets within category 4 from Romania only counted as half-units against quota.
4. Hong Kong. The Commission asked member states to provide them with figures for the amount of trade in categories 15B and 17 which should be transferred to category 21 as a result of the recent decision on the classification of blousons. The UK said that it was very difficult to give precise figures for this trade since blousons were not specifically identified under separate nimexe headings but the UK would provide the Commission with an estimate of the amount of trade. The UK asked that the problems of origin concerning imports from Hong Kong be discussed at a future meeting and reminded the Management Group that the UK had agreed to a derogation from the rules of origin for Hong Kong for handkerchiefs and household linen alone and only for 1978.
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