TNAG-0044-FCO40-80-Exports-to-the-Benelux-countries-aide-memoires-1967 — Page 84

Our reference: Your reference:

CRE 41/1967

Dear Gordon,

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BOARD OF TRADE

Commercial Relations and Exports Department

1 Victoria Street, London S.W.1

Telex: 25955 Answer Back: BOTHQ LONDON

Telegrams: Advantage London S.W.1

Telephone: ABBEY 7877, ext. 2309.

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September, 196?

Anglo Benelux Agreed Mirute on Trade

Following my letter of 2nd June and the subsequent inter-departmental corrispondence Tippetts wrote to Gelderman and Van Coppenolle on the 3rd July giving our comment. on the Benelux draft and explaining that while we were prepared to accept it for one year we would prefer a more thorough going redraft and would put forward proposale of our .wn. A copy of Tip etts' letter was sent to you and the others

corne 1.

Se have now had replies from Gelderman and Van Coppenolle sugge ting a meeting of officials in Cet-ber to dipruse the final drafting of the 1967 Agreed Minute and for an excllenge f views on the form which future Agreed Minutes might take. We consider that such a meeting would be useful, but it will be necessary for us to clear cur ideas on the ontent o

ย new Agreed Minute and I am accordingly writing to you and to the others conerned to

rek your agreement to what we propose.

I attach * Iraît ci a new Agreed Minute and Annexe, together with a draft nge of letters on which I should be grateful for comments. The form of these decuments is based pon the newly revised Anglo-Germen Agreed Minate or Trude which

signed in July this

A copy of this is attached for ease of reference.

The folledi notes may be of assistance in ea pidasing the drafti-

(a)

(b)

(c)

we have relegated to exchange of letter various paragr-phs referring to e.g. United Kingdor liberalization of jute imports (which took place in 1964), complaint alout the lack of ⠀⠀ Belgian muger quota, undertakings about

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The event of a reimposition of quotas, etc.. which in our view out of date, seem inappropriate to the text of document which will be pubject to aut matin renewal, oz widon are already covered by implication in the dr Agreement (paragraph 4).

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We have included the shiṛing paragraph from the velo-German Syreed Minute, but ect tax che dealing with quota. fee tra le fira since the German quota 11. -

is much longer than the Benelux ist und this point therefore lid not Gewm plstien) ly relevant ir a Benelux context.

We have include l า the preamble a reference to the United Kingdom Cependent tareas Cerritories. Hitherto the Anglo ben-lux Agreed Minutes nave referrel solely to the United Kingdom, though the Netherlands Dependent Territorier have been covered. This has particular reference to the recent difficulties over Hong kong textiles, but we wonder whether long Kong which

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responsible

J. k. Gorden, ENG.. Foreign Office, Downing Street,

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