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DRAFT NOTE OF MEETING

Restraints on textiles

Mr. Goldsmith said that no decision on the UK line could be

taken until we knew the results of the discussions between the

Japanese and the Americans.

Mr. Jordan said that the main points in which Hong Kong was

interested were:-

(a) That the uniqueness of the Cotton Textiles Arrangement

should be maintained.

(b) It followed from this that if something had to be done

internationally about restraint of non-cotton textiles

it should be done by extension of the CTA and not by

means of separate GATT discussion of the problems of

non-cotton textiles.

(c) Extension of the CTA could be a reasonable solution of the

problem of "substitution" of man-made fibres for cottori alte

this did not cover the whole problem of m.m.f. tex-

were

tiles since in some fields m.m.f. textiles/substitute

for wool.

tiles/sut

/Mr. Goldsmith