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STATEMENT OF U.S. REPRESENTATIVE

CTAD SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PRFFERE CFS

Agenda item 2

Fr. Chairman:

This

As we reported at the April 23 meeting of the

FCD working party on preferences, the United States

Administration is presently conducting a thorough

review of trade policy, including but not limited

to the question of generalized preferences.

Peview is still going forward, and therefore the

Cited States was not able to meet the target of

March 1 for the submission of illustrative lists and

assumptions.

It may be recalled that when the tart

date was adopted last fall, we made it clear the

United States could not guarantee to meet it because

a new Administration would take office in late

January and would undoubtedly need some time to examine

and make decisions or issues of such great importance.

S

I can only state today that the Administratic

policy review has not been completed and that I am

therefore not able now to give a definitive statemer t

of our position. I can assure you that our policy-

making officials are seized with the problem and that

as soon as decisions have been reached we will give

information concerning them.

April 29, 1969.