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To reisiew the situation and to recommend tre

best ways of dealing with it. We should hear in mind that our main dyect is to see that quantitative restriction of whatever sent are hild to a minimum and are based on

strictly-disenied aniteria of "serious

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are administratively expensive and often involve

contentious and inconveniently detailed legislation,

they give rise to frequent friction between the

donor and recipient countries and they often put

profits into pockets other than those intended by

the criginators of the scheme. The marke disruption that they are designed to prevent-ŵould

be better dealt with under Article XIX of the

BOAT. The which is by definition the internationally

accepted instrument for this purpose. The fact

that action taken ünder this article has to be

Ton-discriminatory\and temporary`and-may involve^

regation or compensation tends to deter importing

countriêe from taking action under it that is、over-^___

Vally or_unjustiYIA——

13ur line in the CTC, has not yet been finally decided,

except that we shall not be taking a lead in pressing for

the renewal of the L.T.A. If the consensus appears to

be in favour of a prolongation, we may take an initiative in proposing thắt a GuTT Working farty shoudal be set up