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12.

Processed Agricultural Products

(other than those of

special interest to India Pakistan and Ceylon). At the beginning

of the negotiations, we asked for zero duties in the c.e.t. on a

number of processed agricultural products. Agree sent had been

reached on the following products, subject to agreement on a

'package' for processed agricultural products as a whole:

(i)

suspension of the c.e.t. to zero

meat, fish liver oil

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rabbits, kangaroo

(ii) 'soft decalage' (i.e. application of the c.e.t. by five

stages, of 15% on accession, 15% on 1 July 1965, 20%

on 1 January 1967, 20% on 1 July 1968, and 30% on

1 January 1970). meat and fish meals, fresh, chilled

and frozen fish (but not including salmon), seeds,

maple syrup, canned tomatoes and tomato juice,

sweetened forage, tallow and meat extracts.

contains

13. We should seek to revive the suspensions at (1) above,

unless the c.e.t. as it emerges from the Kennedy Round contint

zero duties on any of the three items. We should also seek to

revive generous arrangements for the gradual application of the

(see paint below) c.e.t. on the products at (ii) above. These would not need to

correspond exactly in length and phasing to to those

agreed last time unless that fitted in with what was negotiated

for transitional periods generally.

provisionally

14. (No agreement had been reached, by the time the 1961-3

negotiations broke down, on the following processed agricultural

products canned salmon, chilled and frozen salmon, canned

lobster, canned fruit, canned vegetables, dried vine fruit,

dried tree fruit, dried vegetables, honey, leather)

15.

Association Under Part IV of the Treaty of Rome. It was

provisionally agreed that association with the enlarged Community under Part IV of the Treaty of Rome would be appropriate for all

our then dependent territories except Hong Kong, Gibraltar, Malta,

and the three High Commission territories of Basutoland,

Bechuanaland, Swaziland, and for those independent Commonwealth

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