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22 October, 1969.
Mr Caray Mr Toms
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Mr Duanet.
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U.S. textile imports
As arranged, I went to see Olivier Long this morning to follow up the talk reported in the enclosure to my letter to you of 17 October and the suggestion you made to me in your letter of 16 October, which crossed mine.
After I had explained how we saw the present position and our anxiety to see the GATT used to maximum effect for restraining the Americans from extending restrictions into man-made fibres and woollen fields, I asked Long how he now saw GATT's role. He said he had not altered his earlier view that GATT should not intervene, at any rate at this stage.
There are, as Long sees it, three courses open. One is for the exporters to go on stonewalling in the expectation that the Americans will finally give up. Another is for both sides to compromise on the basis of some limited selective restraints,
introduced voluntarily. The third is for GATT to take the matter up now and try to get a settlement. Long rejects the third on the ground that this would in his view lead inevitably to some agreement similar to the LTA, with which GATT would be stuck for the next decade. If the Americans accepted & GATT discussion, they would do so in order to bring increased pressure to bear for just such a settlement.
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R.Goldsmith, Esq.,
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