responsibilities probably has the biggest problem.
options are open to us:
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The following
(a) To extend the list of exceptions while maintaining the
offer of unlimited duty free entry for the remainder.
(b) To reduce the depth of cut offered, with possibly only
modest cuts on the most sensitive items, leaving the list of
exceptions as it stands.
(c) To offer duty free quotas on virtually all goods
(presumably excepting cotton textiles) on the lines of the
E.E.C. offer.
(a) Some combination of the above.
19. Alternatives (a) and (b) do not have the administrative
complications of duty quotas. But they both raise considerable
difficulties of selection and justification for the statistical
reasons discussed above in paragraph 14. Even if all the
relevant trade statistics could be obtained as the basis for
evaluating offers, we would still be faced with the problem of
how to extend our list of exception in such a way as to achieve
equivalence of effort with the EEC and the USA when the Community's
offer is based on free entry limited by duty quotas. Assuming
some sort of total figure of trade could be arrived at for the
purpose of justifying our withdrawals, we would then face the dilemma of selecting further tariff headings as exceptions, with
all the difficultires of selection and arguments that this would
give rise to. The offer of duty reductions instead of free entry
also involves a number of serious objections; it would involve
a greater amount of discrimination between developing countries, than we would willingly contemplate given the duty free entry
we already provide for most of our imports from the Commonwealth;
/it would
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