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COULD FALL ANYWHERE BEYWEEN THE EXTREMES OF FULL AND ZERO INFORMATION, THE LATTER ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE DECISION BEFORE THE COMMITTEE WOULD BE A COLLECTIVE ONE IN THE SENSE THAT AS A GROUP SUBSTANTIVE DOCUMENTATION WOULD BE PUT FORWARD BUT WHICH MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT COVER ALL COUNTRIES CONCERNED AS POTENTIAL PREFERENCE GIVERS, (THE U.S. AND JAPAN AGREED PRIVATELY, AFTER THE MEETING THAT THOUGH THEY WOULD MUCH HAVE PREFERRED THAT THE COMMITTMENT TO A QUICKER PRODUCTION OF SUBSTANTIVE DOCUMENTATION BE ON A ''BEST ENDEAVOURS ONLY BASIS THEY HAD JUDGED THAT TO SUGGEST THIS WOULD HAVE REOPENED THE WHOLE ARGUMENT WITH THE EEC, DISADVANTAGEOUSLY)
11. THE CHAIRMAN ADDED THE USEFUL, IF OBVIOUS, INTERPRETATIVE
POINTS THAT THE DOCUMENTATION WOULD DEPEND ON PROGESS IN THE AD HOC GROUP AND THE WORK OF THIS WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE TO BE
APPROVED AND FINALISED BY THE TRADE COMMITTEE, THE SENIOR BODY
OF THE TWO, THEN IN A LONG WRANGLE LATER- AFTER FORTHOMME HAD
LEFT - ABOUT THE DATE OF THE NEXT TRADE COMMITTEE MEETING THE
CHAIRMAN FIRMLY RESISTED AN EEC ATTEMPT TO BRING FORWARD THE DATE OF AN OCTOBER MEETING OF THE AD HOC GROUP AFTER HE HAD STATED THAT THERE SHOULD BE A GOOD GAP BETWEEN THIS AND THE TRADE COMMITTEE. 27 29 OCTOBER WERE FINALLY FIXED FOR THE TRADE COMMITTEE MEETING.
12, THE OTHER ITEMS DISCUSSED BY THE TRADE COMMITTEE ARE REPORTED BRIEFLY IN M.1.F.S.T. NO. 31.
13. F.C.0. PLEASE PASS COPIES TO 0.H. KEMMIS, BOARD OF TRADE.
F.C.O. PASS TO UKMIS GENEVA AND UKDEL EEC AND SAVING TO WASHINGTON.
SIR J. CHADWICK
/REPEATED AS REQUESTED/
COPY PASSED TO 8.0.T. AS REQUESTED/
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