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ROUTINE UKDEL EEC BRUSSELS

TELEGRAM NO. 211

CONFIDENTIAL.

NEUTRAL.

TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

9 OCTOBER 1969

ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TELEGRAM NO. 211 OF 9 OCTOBER 1969 REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO WASHINGTON UKMIS GENEVA

AND UKDEL O E C D.

UNCTAD PREFERENCES.

THE COMMISSION HAS NOW SENT TO THE COUNCIL A FORMAL COMMUNICATION IN

CONNECTION WITH THE COMMUNITY'S OFFER ON UNCTAD PREFERENCES. THE

COMMISSION PROPOSES THAT THEY BE AUTHORISED

(A) TO TRANSMIT THE COMMUNITY OFFER TO UNCTAD BY 15 NOVEMBER, IRRES- PECTIVE OF WHETHER OR NOT THE AMERICANS DO LIKEWISE: AND

B) TO ANNOUNCE AT THE OECD TRADE COMMITTEE MEETING AT THE END

OF OCTOBER THAT THEY WILL BE DOING THIS.

2. THE COMMISSION PROPOSE THAT THE +SUBSTANTIAL DOCUMENTATION+ TO BE TRANSMITTED TO UNCTAD SHOULD TAKE THE FORM OF THE OFFER THEY TABLED IN THE O E C D IN MARCH OF THIS YEAR, WITHOUT ANY CHANGES. THE O E C D OFFER SHOULD HOWEVER BE ACCOMPANIED BY A COVERING NOTE, THE

TEXT OF WHICH IS AS FOLLOWS:

+THESE PRELIMINARY PROPOSALS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED ON THE

BASIS OF THE HYPOTHESIS THAT ALL THE PRICIPAL INDUSTRIALISED MEMBERS

OF THE O E C D WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE PREFERENCES AND WILL MAKE A

COMPARABLE EFFORT.

IT IS POINTED OUT IN PARTICULAR, IN THIS CONTEXT, THAT IT APPEARS DIFFICULT TO CONCEIVE THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN GRANT DUTY FREE ENTRY FOR TEXTILE PRODUCTS, REFERRED TO IN PART B OF ITS COMMUN 1 – CATION TO THE O E C D, IF IT IS NOT GOING TO BE FOLLOWED, IN DOING THIS, BY THE PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIALISED COUNTRIES.

/... IT IS

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