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Objectives to safeguard essential Common-

wealth interests

Preliminary Note

17. Some of the difficulties which will

arise for certain Commonwealth countries

will be alleviated by the special arrange-

ments (e.g.`association) which we hope

to make for them and which are dealt with

in this section. Further liberalisation

of world trade in the context of the GATT,

and the proposed scheme for generalised

preferences for developing countries,

would also ease the problems for Common--

wealth exporters of U.K. entry to the EEC.

(i) New Zealand, Canada and Australia

The subjects of New Zealand's agri-

cultural produce and Australia's sugar

interests are covered in separate papers.

18.

The manufactured goods of all three

countries will be in the same position

after British entry to the Community:

imports into the U.K, will face the

Community's common external tariff.

19. Ministers decided in 1967 that we

should not aim at securing more for

New Zealand, (apart from the field of dairy

products aesaicente) Canada and Australia, than

the gradual application of tariffs and

levies over whatever transitional periods

are negotiated.

No negotiating objectives

in respect of Canada and Australia were

mentioned in the statement to the six made

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