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Community could not significantly alter its offer and that it would feel bound to give its illustrative list of prof- crences offers to the developing countries by 15 November if the Group could not agree on joint proposals. Miyazaki (Japan) appealed for Group unity.

4.

Kommis said that we were having to prepare and hoped

a revised offer of processed agricultural

to table soon

Kada

products. We were unable to decide how to modify our industrial offer without further clarification of other's positions. But given the strong likelihood that other offers would remain less generous and Commonwealth developing countries would gain less from preferences in other markets than they lost in ours, then modification there would have to be.

"Substantive Documentation" for UNCTAD

There

5. The main difficulty was in agreeing the form of such "substantive documentation" and, in particular, whether or not individual national illustrative lists should be included. Di Martino (c.f. para. 3 above) repeated his claim and said....

The U.S. and it applied irrespective of what others did. Japan, with support, argued for further efforts towards an agreed general position and against submission of individual lists even if this meant little went to the UNCTAD. was a general feeling that only the Trade Committee could settle this important issue and decide between, e.g., whether individual national lists night be attached to a joint state- ment, or lists of individual products offered for preference but without identifying countries, and the Secretariat, will prepare a draft setting out fully the different courses. made it plain that if the U.S. are unable to expedite their work so as to enable the. Trade Committee to agree on joint proposals of some substance,. with the consequence that the E.E.C. and, possibly others submit their lists to UNCTAD as provisional bases for examination, the U.K. would have to follow suit but with the qualification that final lists would be modi- fied in the light of other donor countries' positions.

6.

Kenmis

Discussion, on other well-worn themes yielded more consensus and general agreement, in the context of a joint part of a ---submission of "substantive documentation" to UNCTAD, was

reached on:-

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