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The Trade Committee at lagt dinquosed boneficiaries in a rethor desultory way in Iain Committee of which I now record the cubstanco and also some of the discussion at the private lunch at which some of the old attitudog were once more rovealad.
First of all it was agreed this we should now instruct our delegations in Geneva to concert together and with the Secretoriat about the drafting of a global waiver, The Canadiane still noced to have some doubts about whether such a waiver could be satisfactori drafted but they agreed to give it a try. No other country oppood a global waiver in principle though the Japanoge appeared to bo arguing that the thing should not be "too legalistio" though I really could not understand what they were getting ab. The Munka
· Grocka and Prtuguese, of course, made tho reservation that their support for such a waiver would depend upon which countries vere to be beneficiaries under the various schemes.
Invited in the Main Committee to speak on beneficiaries tho bisod States said that they had "no troublo" with any of the Group of 77, that they had no intention of offering preferencen to Putern Europe at the outset (apart from Yugoslavia) and that in principio thay had no difficulty in defining the four OBCD Rozhere ag developing countries though, of course, the reventa proferowan condition would apply to them. Mr Cronk went on to recull the UNCTAD Raport said that "the attainment of this objective, relation to the question of reverse proferenced,
mill require further consultations between the partien directly concrmed
The Secretary-General of UICTAD w123. assist in there consultations with the agreement of the governments concurred". (Poge & of TD/B/329). Prosumably in Cronk hopes to cet She Tac Generel to call upon the 10, United Kingdom, Cade. ote to gialup their reverse preferences liko gentlemon without reducing ay e the benefits they give in return. Iz this is Kr Cronk' nobion 24 25 somewhat naivo and quite irrelevant/to the OECD countrico.
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The FEC said they had no a uzioari exclusions but the American stipulations would lead to diiculties on grounds of burden aboring. The consultations referred to at UHCPAD must take place between the countries imposing the conditions and the applicants for preforeneda. 4 the band gave us the old story that the principle of self election should have meant a common list and that if there wore to be very different systoms in operation the New Debli Resolution would be "remisoncauso". The Japanese, said that they would soon have to submit their scheme to parliament with the proposed list of beneficiaries. They had been working on various systems but these were now being re-considered. They were glad that certain Afriom countries had disinvokod GATE Article XXIV in order to qualify for preferences in Japan. Othoru were likely to do so. The net rosuli was likely to be thathe number of beneficiaries under the Japaneze Scheme would be increased. Me said that we had always besu propazeć
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