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to developed Commonwealth countries was offered on a list

of processed agricultural products in Chapters 1-24 accounting

for 78 per cent of all dutiable imports - and 66 per cent of all imports and of processed agricultural products (as defined by the U.N.C.T.A.D. Secretariat) from non-Commonwealth develop-

ing countries in 1967.

E. E. C. Submission

5. The E.E.C. offer duty free entry on all manufactures and

semi-manufactures in Chapters 25-99 limited by duty quotas to

be calculated annually (but without any reduction in the quota figure) on the basis of imports from developing countries in

a base year plus 5 per cent of total imports from all other

countries outside the E.E.C. in the latest available year. A

very limited number of exceptions may be made in the light of

consultations in 0.E.C.D. and cotton textiles will be included

but only for countries covered by the Long Term Arrangement

and within the quantitative limits established under it or

bilaterally, while the inclusion of jute and coir products is

similarly envisaged only within the framework of arrangements

to be made with developing countries. Although their submission

does not say so and this will not be publicly announced, we

understand the E.E.C's intention to be to apply the quotas only

to products that are judged to be sensitive. As a general rule,

no single developing country will be allowed to exceed 50 per

cent of any quota. The E. E. C. offer duty cuts of varying

depths but often very shallow - on a limited number of processed

agricultural products accounting for perhaps only about 5 per

cent of total E. E. C. imports of processed products from

non-associated developing countries. For these products there

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