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odstuffs. When the negotiations vere

suspended, no agreement had been reached on

ten items It is unlikely that we could do

moro the next negotiations than to single

out the three particularly sensitive items (1.e, canned salmon, canned fruit and dried

vine fruit) and try to add them to the list

of products to which soft décalage would

apply. The remainder would be subject to

the common external tariff as it became

generally applicable in Britain to imports

from outside the enlarged Community (1.c. over

a period of thres 7 years).

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HONG KONG

4. Decause of the special character of

Hong Kong's cxports, it is unlikely that the

Six would agree to association for Hong Kong,

In that case, we could accept that the

common external tariff should be applied to

imports into Britain from Hong Kong over a

transitional period subject to the proviso

that the effect would be examined and

romedial action taken if damage was being

caused to Hong Kong.

trọng trong

For a transitional

period, we should need special arrangements

for the import into Britain of cotton

textiles from Hong Kong;

C.

5.

GIBRALTAR

As a European dependent territory,

Gibraltar would automatically become an

integral part of the Community under Article

227(4) of the Rome Treaty. We should need

to seek an interim period of some years to

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