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go to the wall, as other countries had done, while tempering the wind
by "adjustment assistance" to those likely to be hardest hit. There
are, however, no indications that Mr. Stans is likely to regard
action of this kind as meeting the requirement.
Extension of the Long Term Arrangement to other textiles.
6. This has been the prime objective which Mr. Stans has set
himself. It is still possible that in one form or another the
United States may propose it at the GATT Textile Committee this autumn
The following seem to be the principal alternative ways in which the
United States might seek this objective.
1) By a formal proposal to extend the coverage of the
Long Term Arrangement to other textiles.
(ii) By appealing to Article 6 of the Long Term Arrangement
under which the participating countries "agree to avoid circumvention of this arrangement by
directly competitive textiles".
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substitution of
(iii) By amendment of the definition of cotton textiles given
in Article 9 of the L.T.A. so as to bring within its
scope a range of cotton-man made fibre mixes e.g. by
substituting for the present definition ("in which
cotton represents more than 50 per cent by weight of
the fibre content") revised wording e.g. "in which
cotton represents more than 50 per cent by weight or
value etc.".
7. Whichever method the United States might choose, the intention
would clearly be the same, and would come up against the provision in
Article 1 of the L.T.A. recognising that the measures contained in it
are "not to be considered as lending themselves to application in other
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