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the likely outcome of the Norwegian application was cleared; and
on twelve items on which no agreement had been reached when the
negotiations broke down;
namely: aluminium, aluminium oxide, lead,
zinc, newsprint, railway sleepers, softwood plywood, casein, vegetable
tanning extracts, artificial corundum, cadmium and raw silk).
8.
Manufactured Products from Canada, Australia and New Zealand
+ (The term manufactured products' was understood to mean all
industrial products which we could show we imported from the three
countries, except for those on which the c.e.t. was zero or on which
we were asking that the c.e.t. should be reduced to zero).
It was
agreed that Britain would apply the common external tariff on these
goods in three stages:
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30% on accession
30% on 1 January 1967
40% on 1 January 1970,
making transitional period of six years if one takes 1 January 1964
as the date on which we should have acceded to the Community. In
addition, it was agreed that the enlarged Community would be ready
to take part in multilateral negotiations for reductions in the
common external tariff on industrial products on a reciprocal basis.
Frovision was also a greed for consultation between the enlarged
Community and the three countries concerned in 1966 and 1969 to
examine the development of its trade with them.
9. We should seek a transitional agreement comparable in length
and phasing to that set out in the provisional agreement. It would
not need to be exactly the same unless that fitted in with what was
(See parn 40 below) negotiated for transitional periods generally. It would be useful
to seek to revive the provision for consultation with Australia,
Canada and New Zealand at convenient points during the transitional
period. It would be rather pointless so soon after the Kennedy
Round to try to revive the idea of a statement of willingness to
participate in multilateral tariff negotiations.
/10.
+If a special solution for New Zealand embraced manufactured as well
as agricultural products, paras. 8 & 9 would only apply to Australia
And Gamede,
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