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However, the E.B.C. has now accepted an obligation to give "specific indications" and the Department therefore proposes that Messrs. Dodge and Jonos should be briefed to seek these indications from the Commission as soon as possible.

13.

Similarly it is proposed that Mr. Hermann should approach the U.S. Department of State. It seems fairly clear that the Commerce Department would like to make 'improvements' for cotton dependent on the concession of restraint on non-cotton textiles, but` the U.S. Government as a whole is committed to the C.T.C. document referred to in paragraph 9 above and to a statement by the leader of its Delegation that the cotton and non-cotton 'problems' should be considered separately.

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Members are asked to advise whether they concur with the course of action proposed.

15.

This memorandum has been graded 'CONFIDENTIAL' because the meetings of the Cotton Textiles Committee are private; and the course of the discussions and the conclusions reached are not made public. Members are therefore asked to treat the details in this paper as purely for their own information.

Commerce and Industry Department,

9th January 1970.

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