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form of association (b) should be based

on the trade rules in Title I of the

Yaounde Convention.

These rules

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

(summarised in Annex III to this brief)

show what they involve in the way of

privileges and preferences for Community

members in the Associated states. The

confidential understanding noted that

trade agreements "could provide for

tariff changes" In the case of trade

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agreements such changes would have to be

on an m.f.n. basis. Another part of the

understanding indicated that if Nigeria

or Tanganyika should express a preference

for negotiations on any one of these three

bases (see paragraph 13 above) they should

be allowed to open negotiations on that

basis. But the French insisted that the

Community must have some say in which of

the alternatives could be applied for by

other countries.

16.

A paper by the EEC Commission on

Commonwealth problems of our entry, was

sent to the Council of Ministers in

March 1970. It listed those independent

developing countries of the Commonwealth

of Africa and the Caribbean who might be

covered by the 1961-63 provisional

arrangements for association; Botswana,

The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi,

Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania,

Trinidad and Tobago, It should be noted

thut these views of the EMC Commission

will not necessarily be acceptable to the

Council of Ministeru.

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