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12.

Protocol dealing with specific

commodities.

A number of these are

annexed to the Rome Treaty. They embody

special arrangements to enable individual

member countries to import commodities

duty free or on preferential terms from

third countries. Their provisions have

been gradually superseded by other arrange-

ments, including the lowering and dis-

appearance of tariffs on the articles they

covered.

Now only the Protocol on imports

of bananas into Germany is still in force.

13. There is one more point to be noted

which is relevant to the conclusion of

association agreements for developing

Commonwealth countries and dependent

territories. The Council of Ministers of

the Community issued a Declaration of

Intent in July 1963 which confirmed the

offer made during the previous negotiations

that association under what was later

negotiated as the Yaoundé Convention

should be open to independent Commonwealth

countries in Africa and the Caribbean.

This Declaration (of which the full text

is attached as Annex II to this brief),

provided that the Community would be

ready to negotiate with countries of a

similar economic structure to the present

associates, with a view to:

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Their full accession to the

Association Convention according

to the procedure in Article 53; or

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