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CONFIDENTIAL

DRAFT STATEMENT ON COTTON TEXTILE IMPORT POLICY

SUGGESTED AMENDMENTS BY COMMODITIES DEPARTMENT, FCC

Paragraph 5, line 13-15

delete the words

"quotas on the other hand... and would not"

insert a comma after "confidence" in line 13 and

insert the words "and would" in substitution for

the deleted passage.

Paragraph 6, line 7

Paragraph 7

delete "unsatisfactory"

For the manuscript amendment, substitute

"Once the tariff comes into affect the renewal

of quantitative restraint on imports would

only be considered in the circumstances envisaged

by the Long Term Arrangement on Cotton Textiles

or any successor arrangement.

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For the words "this decision" at the beginning of

the last sentence of paragraph 6 substitute

"the proposed change".

For the first sentence substitute

"The Government have fully in mind the importance

of textile exports to this country for some of

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