PRIME
MINISTER
CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Mr. President,
10 Downing Street Whitehall
March 9, 1970.
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During our talk on January 28 you were good
enough to say that you would look at the problem
of imports of non-cotton textiles and I am now
sending you a note on this.
I understand the problem which you face.
But I wonder whether solutions could not be found
which raised fewer difficulties for your trading
partners and for progress towards freer trade than
the ones now proposed. What I fear is a risk of serious damage to the system of international trade
discipline which has done so much to promote world
trade and prosperity. I know we both want to prevent
this.
The exporting countries are taking up an
attitude which may seem unhelpful because, in their
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