TNAG-0135-FCO40-171-Tariff-preferences-for-developing-countries-1969 — Page 188

/2.

duty free entry without limitation but only on condition that

at, least all the other major prospective donor countries would

similarly grant free entry without limitation to the same

beneficiaries;

if they were not prepared to do so we would be

obliged to withdraw the offer and reconsider our position;

similarly our offer on steel was subject to other major donors

doing the same.

3.

General conditions attached to our offers were that we

ассер.

includ

that we

necessa

he recommendations of the Special Group in 1967 (which

he principle of self-election of beneficiary countries)

uld consider it essential to modify our submission if

so as to make our lists comparable in scope and coverage

with v other donors declared themselves ready to undertake,

that we would have to obtain release from our contractual

obligations to CPA countries to the extent necessary to enable

their preferences to be extended to developing countries generally

and that we should have to bear in mind the extent to which

Commonwealth developing countries obtained new advantages

• elsewhere to compensate them for sharing their preferences in

the U.K. We also stated that we attached importance to the

establishment of safeguards.

The submissions of other donors

4. The other donor countries that tabled lists on 1st March

were the EEC, the Scandinavians, Switzerland, Australia and

New Zealand. The United States, Canada, the Irish Republic and

Austria have not yet tabled lists and Japan's lists have not

been made available to other countries although something is

known of their intentions. Until the U.S.A. table their lists

further progress in 0.E.C.D. towards reaching agreement on a

package of offers consisting of specific preferences on tariff

headings cannot be made. The best guess we can make, in the

absence of any firm information from Washington, is that the

/U.S.