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CONFIDENTIAL

Draft EURO Paper

The Possibility of Reviving Those of the 1962 Provisional

Agreements of Special Concern to the Commonwealth

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1. In our consultations with Commonwealth Governments about our

application to join the European Economic Community, we are

indicating that we hope that our negotiations may be shortened and

simplified by reviving for the most part the provisional agreements of special concern to the Commonwealth which were worked out in

1962.

2.

Since 1962 there have of course been considerable changes and developments in this country, in the Community and in international trading conditions. In some cases, these changes mean that the 1962 provisional agreements are no longer relevant, and we shall have to start again from scratch. In others, while the main lines of the 1962 provisional agreements remain relevant, the details of the agreements will need bringing up to date.

3.

Provisional agreements were reached in 1962 on the following subjects of special concern to the Commonwealth.

British requests for zero duties

Manufactured products from Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Imports of temperate agricultural products

ducts

Imports of certain processed agricultural products (other than from India, Pakistan and Ceylon)

Association under Part IV of the Treaty of Rome Exports from India, Pakistan and Ceylon

Aden

Malaysia

Malta

Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland.`

The purpose of this paper is to examine these provisional agreements, to dismiss those which are no longer relevant, to say how those provisional agreements which are still largely relevant would need to be brought up to date, and to record

those Commonwealth problems which the revival of the

âiscuss

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but not to

/still-relevant