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CONFIDENTIAL

Textiles

Brief for Mr. Hughes' visit to Japan September 1969

The visit will provide an opportunity to

encourage the Japanese to stand firm in their

resistance to countries such as the United States

and Canada, which are becoming increasingly protection-

ist in the non-cotton textile field. We should also

welcome an exchange of views on our two countries'

attitudes towards a further extension in time of the

Long Term Arrangement for Cotton Textiles;

should like to know the Japanese reaction to the

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initiative on international textile policy which we

may

A to propose at the Cotton Textile Committee meeting

next month.

Japanese Reactions to the Stans' Proposals

2

A summary of Japanese exchanges with the Americans

is given in Annex A. It would be appropriate to

congratulate them on the tough line they have taken

with Mr. Stnas and his colleagues; assure them of our

continued opposition to any proposal to extend the

Long Term Arrangement to other fibres;

and express

the hope that the Japanese will not weaken our

combined stand by agreeing to any new bilateral

restraint arrangements with the U.S.A. (or others)

for textiles other than cotton.

3

The Japanese may be in a position to indicate

what progress is being made by the Japanese team

which went to the United States on about 15th September

to look into the allegations of disruption in the U.S.

textile industry.

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