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concerned at the same time that the normal full monthly detail

of import statistics was being extractoā.

These returns

would not, howover, normally be available until towards the

end of the following month so that the full rate of duty would

not be reimposed for a period of between one and two months

from the date the quota ceiling was reached. Further study

by the Board of Trade in consultation with Customs needs

therefore to be given to the possibility of getting an carlier

warning through the normal machinery for processing import

statistics, but the only other alternative would seem to be

for an extra copy of the entry forms to be sent to a special

section in the Board of Trade to be set up, to record them

manually against the relevant duty quota as they wore received.

There is also the problem to be considered of how the necessary

legislative authority could be obtained for duty quotas.

Processed Agricultural Products

26. Here all the offers are in the form of a positive list of

items on which straigh-forward cuts, not limited by duty quotas,

might be granted. As already mentioned, no proper comparison

of offers can be made because, apart from other deficiencies

in the lists, no country has provided figures of its total

imports and total dutiable imports from beneficiary countries

in this sector. Nevertheless it is clear that all the other

countries' offers are much less generous than that of the U.K.

Not only is the value of imports covered EEC 19 million,

Nordics 63 million (including primary products), Switzerland

10 million and Canada % 3.5 million, at much below the U.K.

offer of % 119 million but in most cases the depth of cut

is much smaller.

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