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G.F. 323

CONFIDENTIAL

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Fourth Plenary Session

Monday, 1 June 1970 2.00 p.m.

55.

Baron de Geer stated that he had had meetings with their industrial advisers which had proven to be most difficult. The results could be summarised in the following six offers:-

(a) on knitted shirts, a combined quota level of 851 calculated

as follows:-

(i) shirts of cotton

287

(ii) shirts of synthetic fibres.

160

(iii) sweaters of cotton

285

(iv) sweaters of continuous m.m.f. fibres

119

851

(b)

on cotton woven garments, a combined E/A scheme for

(i) cotton woven shirts

(ii) cotton woven blouses

(iii) cotton woven nightgarments

(c)

a combined quota level of 1,600 for synthetic shirts and blouses

woven discontinuous synthetic shirts

(including sport shirts)

woven discontinuous synthetic blouses

rounded up to

660

923

1,583

1,600

(a)

a quota level of 340 for woven synthetic nightgarments (new item no. 5) based on 1969 import level of 339;

(e) the level of 6,200 for underpants tentatively agreed on Friday

was not acceptable and had to be reduced to 5,500, with sub-limits of 1,300 for men's and boys' and 4,200 for women's and girls' wear;

(f) a combined quota level of 790 for

synthetic anoraks

cotton anoraks

600 (about 10% growth)

190 (approx. E.A. level)

790

Baron de Geer concluded that because of the new groupings, and because of the Swedish industry's difficulty in accepting the proposal on devising new equivalent values for underpants they would not be able to agree to swing at the same time: they felt there was a difference even between a lady's brief and a man's undershorte.

/56.

CONFIDENTIAL