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ROUTINE UK MISSION GENEVA TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE.
UKMIS GENEVA TELEGRAM NO.31 TO HONG KONG
3 DECEMBER 1969
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ADDRESSED TO HONG KONG TELEGRAM NUMBER 31 OF DECEMBER 3 RFI
F C O SAVING BRUSSELS (FOR DODGE) UKDEL BRUSSELS TOKYO.
FROM JONES.
E E C COMMON COMMERCIAL POLICY - JAPAN.
IN CONVERSATION WITH KADOTA REPORTED IN GENEVA TELEGRAM NUMBER
661 TO F C O JAPANESE REACTION TO CURRENT E E C PROPOSALS ON THE
C C P WAS ALSO MENTIONED.
2. KADOTA SAID TOKYO WAS NOT TAKING THE COMMISSIONS'S SECTOR
PROPOSALS TOO SERIOUSLY AS THEY FELT THERE WOULD BE DIFFICULTY
IN REACHING AGREEMENT AMONG MEMBER STATES ON A COMMON LINE.
3. ON QUESTION OF POSSIBLE BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH COMMUNITY
ON REDUCING CURRENT LEVELS OF RESTRICTIONS HE SAID VIEWS IN JAPANESE GOVERNMENT CIRCLES WERE SHARPLY DIVIDED. SOME THOUGHT
THAT THE BEST WAY WAS TO NEGOTIATE AS THE E E C WOULD OTHERWISE
KEEP THE RESTRICTIONS IN ANY CASE. OTHERS ARGUED THAT RESULT
OF NEGOTIATIONS COULD BE TO CODIFY AND GIVE RESPECTABILITY TO
DISCRIMINATORY RESTRICTIONS OR RESTRAINTS ON JAPANESE EXPORTS
TO WHOLE COMMUNITY, AND ALSO PERMIT E E C TO ESTABLISH
PROCEDURES FOR CLAIMING MARKET DISTURBANCE ON ITEMS THAT WOULD
BE OSTENSIBLY LIBERALISED. THEY CONSIDERED THAT IT WOULD BE
PREFERABLE TO FORCE COMMUNITY TO ACT ILLEGALLY IN THE G ATT
IF THEY SO WISHED AS THIS WOULD HOLD OUT A BETTER CHANCE OF
LIBERALISATION AT A LATER DATE. KADOTA SAID IT WAS EARLY
DAYS YET AND HE DID NOT KNOW WHICH OF THESE TWO VIEWS WOULD,
/4. IN RESPONSE
COME OUT ON TOP.
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REGISTRY No.51
- 4DEC 1969
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