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Miss Stoddart

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Reg Pl. enter?

сору

How is it we had

letter, enceprure Annex Alto M. Stewart.

not heard of this fromtois (Hong Kong Reph)

·DEED Sources ? But please

consider the substance of

ECO 6/8

the us. offer before dealing

8 August, 1969,

Aus.

13/8

jin kecire

with that minor procedural point

Tariff Preferences 13-8-69

I am writing to you in Philip Ridley's absence.

Jack Leary of the State Department handed me

yesterday a copy of the U.S. paper on tariff preferences for developing countries which was tabled in 0.E.C.D. at the end of last week. I see from Goldsmith's letter to Ridley of 24 July that you are anxious to have it and I am therefore forwarding a copy of it just in case the 0.E.C.D. machine turns over slowly.

3.

Leary was at pains to stress that the paper was illustrative and non-committal, This is evident enough when one reads it. The extensive list of sensitive product categories at Annex A is deliberately cast in broad terms. At the end of the day the product coverage within each of

This is the fourteen items might be narrowed considerably. discussed in paragraph 7 of the paper. Not surprisingly the list of sensitive products covers the principal industries on whose behalves the protectionists in and out of Congress are so active at present.

4.

We should be grateful if you would continue to` keep us in touch with developments.

0.H.Kemmis, Esq.,

B.Attewell

Tariff Division,

Board of Trade,

c.c. R.G.Britten,Esq.,

London, S.W.1.

Trade Policy Dept., F.C.O.

(with encl.)

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