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that the Government should be prepared to

re-impose quotas on particular sectors under the

Long Term Cotton Textile Arrangement of the

G.A.T.T. of any successor arrangement in proved

cases of market disruption.]

6. U.K. imports of cotton textiles have

reached as much as 53 per cent of total domostic

consumption, the major part being importa fraIA

the developing countries.

This is a far higher

proportion than in any other major developed

country. In these circumstances, faced with

the alternative of continuing the unsatisfactory

quota arrangements and of relying for permanent)

protection on a tariff which would be broadly in

line with those of other developed countries,

the Government have decided that the sensible

course would be to replace the quotas by a

tariff on imports from the Commonwealth on the

lines proposed by the Textile Council. and to

hold quotas on particular sectors under the

Long Term Arrangement in reservez.

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