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still-relevant provisional agreements would not solve.
British Requests for Zero Duties in the Common External Tariff
on Certain Raw Materials and Industrial Goods. (Our requests for
zero duties on processed agricultural products and on certain manufactures and tropical products of particular interest to India and Pakistan are dealt with in the appropriate places below).
Zero duties were agreed on two items in the category, namely
Acetylene Black
Wrought bars, rods, angles shapes and sections of nickel copper.
Agreement was also reached as follows on four other products:
Woodpulp
Ferro-silicon
Ferro-chrome
Rosin.
It was agreed that Britain should receive duty-free quotas of those products. In the first three cases, the quota was initially to be
equal to the whole of our domestic requirements but was liable to
re-examination and possible reduction in the future. In the case
of rosin we were to have our fair share of the total volume of duty
free quotas allowed to all members of the Community under its
Association Agreement with Greece.
6. Unless the common external tariff as it emerges from the
Kennedy Round contains zero duties on any of these six items, we
should seek to revive the agreements for
(1) zero duties on acetylene black and nickel copper
(ii)
(iii)
duty free quotas equal to the whole of our domestic requirements of woodpulp, ferro-chrome and ferro-silicon
a reasonable duty free quota on rosin.
7.
on
(Our other requests for zero duties in this category were
sulphur and cobalt oxide which we withdrew; on petroleum
products, on which discussion was deferred since the Six had not
agreed amongst themselves on the level of the c.e.t.; on silicon
carbide and calcium carbide, on which discussion was deferred until
/the
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