DSR 11C
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VISIT TO US:
WORLD ECONOMIC SCENE
The Prime Minister will wish to emphasise the need
to avoid choking off the recovery by urging the President and the Administration to live up to the commitments
agreed at Williamsburg on budget deficits and
protectionism.
Action by the Americans to implement the éDeclaration is even more important than action by other countries. In the context of the Williamsburg commitment to roll back protectionism, the Prime Minister will wish
to emphasize the need to prevent any further deviation
in relations between the United States and the European
Community. Mrs Thatcher may wish to remind the President
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that his recent steel measures were unhelpful.
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The Prime
Minister might also wish to indicate the need for an
effort on both sides to resolve current problems over
agriculture.
Bilateral Problems
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British interests are affected by the
extra-territorial effect okf certain US laws, such as the
new Export Administration Act, and Unitary Taxation. The
Prime Minister might emphasise the political and economic
importance of these questions to the UK and urge the
President to see that the Administratrion does everything
in its power to ensure that British concerns (and those
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