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25 July, 1969
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The Council net on 23 July with Thrane (Denmark) in the chair. A number of routine questions (reports of the Working Party on Turkish Stamp Duty and of several Balance of Payments consultations) were approved without further debate. A ballot was held under Article XXV:5 on the revised Turkish waiver,
Article XXVIII negotiations
2. In connection with the New Zealand request (which we supported and which was accepted) Nakayama (Japan) asked for a ruling on the legal issue whether the Contracting Party with the principal cupplying interest in any iten under nego- tiation had any rights (to negotiate or to be consulted) where the concession in question had originally buen negotiated on a preferential rate of duty rather than on the n.f.n. rate. He did not sock an inmediate ruling and the matter will bo ..considered again at a later date.
3. We understood from subsequent contacts that Japan's trade in the item to be negotiated certain yarns of ran-made fibre has in fact fallen since mid-1968, when the new duties were inposed on a temporary basis, but that this was due to increased local production in New Zealand (by a firm that is partly U.K. financed) rather than to increased imports from other sources.
FEC Azreements with Tunisia and Morocco
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Kaufmann (Netherlands) presented these agreements (which had already been notified to GATT) as within the spirit of the General Agreement and referred specifically to Article XXIV:5.
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