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EURO PAPER

BRITAIN AND EEN BUROPEAN PORNOVIC COMMUNITY

COMMONEALTH: OTHER PROBLEWS

Separate papers have been prepared on

New Zealand, sugar and the provisional agreements

reached during the 1961-63 negotiations.

This

paper deals with the remaining Commonwealth

problems which will need to be settled in

connection with our entry into the Communi tự

and the solutions which we should seek.

list is necessarily provisional until we have

completed our detailed consultations with the

Coznonwealth Govermente concerned,

Che

A.

2.

AUSTRALIA AND CANADA

(4) Toperate agricultural products

The commodities involved aro coreals

and fresh fruit from Australia and Canada and

dairy products and meat from Australia. These

commodities are all covered by the common.

agricultural policy and would be subject to a

levy or tariff, We should need a transitional

perica for the gradual application of the levy

or tariff which should be the same as the

transitional period negotiated for the

application of the common agricultural policy

to British agriculture.

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(ii) Processed foodatuCÉS

3.

In the last negotiations, the Community . agreed to soft décalage for certain processed

foodstuffs.