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Will quotas on all products be published so that
exporters in developing countries will know what
duty free access they can expect?
Will the duty quotas be enforced on all products
(comprising some 2,500 separate tariff positions)
to which in principle they will apply?
10. On a number of points we have received some tentative
information from the EEC Commission on how they propose that
the scheme should be administered. These proposals are,
however, not necessarily yet approved by the Six member states
and it is quite possible that they will be amended radically,
particularly following the tabling of the U.S. offer lists.
However it appears that the intention is that the six member
states will agree among themselves a list of sensitive products
on which duty quotas according to the standard formula will be
rigidly applied. It is not clear whether a list of these products
will be published or whether there will be any individual
country quotas within the total for the EEC. A list of sensitive
products prepared by the Commission includes a number of
chemical raw materials, some textiles and a number of industrial
items such as ferro-alloys, aluminium and bicycles. In addition
there will be a number of semi-sensitive items on which the
EEC will keep a close check on volumes of imports from beneficiary
countries either by means of regular customs returns or by the
grant of Open Individual Licences. On all other industrial
products however the duty quotas will not be enforced and there
will not be any close scrutiny of the import figures; however
on these products it will be open to any member state to request
either a regular check on import statistics or the enforcement
of the duty quota. This right to impose the quota will constitute
the only safeguard available within the industrial chapters.
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