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associated states and from Morocco and Tunisia, it would be
sensible for us to exclude trade from the Commonwealth preference
area. A number of our largest suppliers from the CPA are, of
course, developed countries but we could argue that excluding
these from the totals would do something to redress the imbalance
that results from the small size of EFTA as compared with the EEC.
17. Taking these exclusions from the import figures on which we
would base our 5% supplementary amount, the effects on figures for
individual items are, not surprisingly, somewhat strange.
taken half a dozen of the sensitive items on which the EEC
Commission have proposed that duty quotas should be enforced under
their scheme and worked out equivalent figures for U.K. duty quotas
in the manner described above. The products and statistics are
given in Table 1 attached. In the case of BTN.53.11, woven
fabrics and sheep's or lambs' wool, we would find ourselves with
a duty quota of about $1,200,000 compared with existing trade
from beneficiary countries of $207,000; the duty quota the EEC
propose is 2,600,000%. In the case of BTN 64.01, Footwear with
outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastic, the U.K. duty quota
would be $369,000 compared with existing trade of $88,000 and the
EEC's duty quota would be $1,260,000. Comparative figures of
this sort clearly bear no relationship to the existing size of
the markets or their sensitivity to further imports from
developing countries. Increased imports free of duty that would
be so much in excess of existing trade would obviously be
unacceptable to the domestic industries concerned, even though,
overall, on all manufactures and semi-manufactures the increased
access to the U.K. market would not be wholly out of line with
the EEC's.
18. In order to arrive at some estimate of the overall figures
of trade that are involved we have taken in Table 2 imports of
/manufactures
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