TNAG-0152-FCO40-188-Exports-of-cotton-textiles-to-Canada-1969 — Page 114

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6.

In practice the Long Term Arrangement has not worked out a s

originally intended for the developing countries.

Instead of

providing growth outlets for their production, subject only to the

invocation of the irrangement where imports were causing market

disruption, developed countries have tended to use the Arrangement as

an instrument of striction; e.g. the U.S. practice of coming to

"mutually acceptable" agreements under Article 4 as an alternative to

the imposition of unilateral restraints under Article 3; the

administration of import controls by the E.E.C. itself rather than by

The U.K. system of global and

the exporting country conoerned.

country quotas has also had a similar effect.

7. The Long Terŋ Arrangement has been accepted by the following countries:

Australia

Austria

Canada

Denmark

E.B.C.

Finland

Greece

Colombia

India Jarael

Jamnica Japan

Korea

Mexico

Norway

Pakistan

Portugal (Metropolitan only) Republic of China

Spain

Sweden

Turkey

U.A.R.

U.K. (inoluding Hong Kong)

United States

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