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as a whole. Moreover, if duty free quotas are in force under a generalised preference scheme the Community may require us to follow suit on some volume of cotton textile imports at least. →
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When the negotiations for British entry came to an end in 1962 it had already been agreed that we could impose tariffs on cotton textiles from Commonwealth developing countries nozo gradually than for other industrial products and that there would be negotiations with India, Pakistan and Ceylon designed to
On the other mitigate the effects on their trade of British entry. hand the Six insisted on special guarantees to the Community's cotton industries against disruption of the market caused by initial divergencies between the trade and tariff policies of
the Six and the United Kingdom,
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It has to be adminted that The possibility of British
accession to the Community, either by the 1st of January, 1972, The whole idea or shortly thereafter, complicates the picture.
of the tariff solution, however, is to give the industry some clear assuranco about the competitive conditions which will face them after the 1st of January, 1972, in the expectation that this will act as a sufficient spur to investment to enable thom to It hold their own without quota protection in 2 years' time. could hardly be expected that the doubtful prospect that their problems would be resolved if our application to join the D.1.0. succeeds will provide the incentive they are seeking. imposition of the tariff as such (at about the lovel of the C.E.T.) hould in no way conflict with British accession and the industry would, of course, welcome any added quota protection
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