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Access Rights into the 4.4.C. for Cotton
Textiles from Japan and Hong Kong
Metric tons
E.E.C.
Japan
Country
(new Article 4
Hong Kong
Agreement)
Germany
5,600
Article 4
7.517
· Liberalised trade 1.100
8,617
France
2,450
Article 2
420
Liberalised trade
9
429
Italy
1,450
Liberalised
550
Benelux
1,150
Article 4
2,294
(annual level)
Balance
(allocation
800
not known)
Total
11,450
11,890
;
Note: (a)
various to square yards · U.S. conversion factors.
Age
(b) 9,000 square yards = 1 metric ton.
(c) figures for liberalised trade have been obtained
from 1968 export licensing records.
British Entry
32.
The above possibilities, in relation to the E.E.C. common commercial policy as a whole, as well as any common policy on quantitative restrictions and a common cotton textile policy, will all be relevant should negotiations be resumed for United Kingdon entry into the Community. Subject to any changes agreed during negotiations and to any transitional periods which may be ́ worked out, the U.K. will be expected to apply all Community policies that are in operation when she joins. This will not only involve the application by the U.K. of the common customs tariff to Common- wealth countries and territories who are not accepted for association arrangements with the enlarged Community. It will also mean that, for instance, the U.K. will be expected to operate the E.4.C. anti- dumping rules and their common rules of origin.
33.
More important for Hong Kong, however, is that (subject again to negotiation) the U.K. will have to accept any Community rules on a common import policy that may be in operation when she joins, as well as any common policy on cotton textiles. In the case of the former, for instance, if the E.E.C. establishes Community quotas or surveillance procedures for the import of item X from Hong Kong, the U.K. will also be required to establish a quota or
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