3. It is impossible to eatinale precisely the commercia.
cort of the incident. Bab port revenues
ween
April and August 1980 probably aronted to sora
of
million. Ing mulitical post 22 16
No concessions were made over the
Britain. The greater attention paid by mi irsers to
Saudi Arabia may even have contributed to an improvement in
rei ations that would otherwise not have come about. There is
also more awareness in the UK media of the consequences of a
lack of restraint in coverage of Saudi Arabia: the WCO bas
been consulted about programmes and articles more frog lently
since 'Death of a Princess'. The public, too, have been
readier to contact the FCO about incidents that could affect
relations with Saudi Arabia.
Indonesia
4.
MAL
Britain's dispute with Indonesia began in autum V
when imports of trousers, blouses and shirts from Indone
cxce.ded the trigger lcvel at which the UK as entitled
to seek a quota restriction under the terms of the bil
EC-Indonesia Textiles Agreement, which is part of bre
ser non policy on low-cost textiles. Despite the fact
imports into other member states were also in exces of
relevant trigger levels they chose either to concede Lufiabe 1
quotas (Benelux) or to hold off britting a "egurat for
action on their behalf (France, Italy, Ireland).
the UK on its own, as an easily indentifiable
Indonesia first ignored the routine request to
exports pending negotiations with the Commi --
lativen channelves then broke dun
bis left
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