TNAG-0134-FCO40-170-Tariff-preferences-for-developing-countries-1969 — Page 142

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4. This first attent at adopting a concrete approach to the problems and their solutions occasioned intensive work in the capitals of all the countri...s involved. The Lask frequently showed itself to be difficult and delicato, in spif its nature as a first approximati ›n. However, real progress has been made and most of our Kumber asuntries were able to delivor their communications to the OECD by the target date, within a few days of it. In some countries the work of proparation is still going 7. Whon all the simissions have been exchanged within the OCD Ad Hoc Group, they will serve, as wo have indicated, as the basis for detailed exchanges of views within the OECD, during which the various countries nay, if they think it necessary, dify their lists and assumptions.

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hile this work was boing carried out in the capitals, wo have antinod with ur cornion deliberations at ECD n different important aspects f the preference syston as well in the Trade Crnittee as in other subordinated bodius. In particular, a Group of Experts on Rules of Origin has initiated a detailed examination of the pr:blons with respect to rules of origin in the context of a goneralizod systen of preferences.

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