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S. Canada propose cuts to the British proferential rate or

33.1/3 per cent below the post-Kennedy m.f.n. rate, whichever

is the lower, on all manufactures and semi-manufactures (which

they regard as excluding for instance wood pulp and unwrought

metals) in Chapters 25-99, other than goods under export

restreint to Canada or on which they are not released from

contractual proference rights. Reductions of at least 25-30

per cent are offered on a number of processed agricultural

products covering only some 3 million of dutiable developing

country trade. The principle of self-election is accepted

subject to burden sharing, and a general safeguard procedure

is envisaged.

9. Austria is apparently prepared to grant unspecified

"substantive linear" cuts on virtually all industrial manufactures

and semi-manufactures in Chapters 25-99 except items covered

by the Long Term Cotton Textiles Arrangement. Varying cuts,

often of 50 per cent, are offered on 54 items in Chapters 1-24

including many primary products. There would be safeguarding

provisions but no reference is made to beneficiary countries.

10. New Zealand has simply provided a meagre positive list

of items throughout the tariff on which unspecified preferential

treatment would be granted. Australia has merely tabled the

scheme which she unilaterally introduced in 1965 and which relies

on duty quotas.

The position of Japan and the U.S.A.

11. Japan is reported in the press to be prepared to offer

cuts of 50 per cent on manufactures and semi-manufactures

except for a negative list of 40 items, including textile and

/ non-ferrous