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27.

The customs union between these

territories and South Africa rules out the

possibility of association for them, since

they could not reduce their tariffs vis-à-

vis the enlarged Community. There is a

further difficulty, in that it would be

virtually impossible to distinguish, for

Community purposes, the exports of the

former High Commission territories from

those of South Africa. This was

recognised in 1962 and it was accordingly

agreed that they should be eligible for a

Morocco-type protocol (see paragraph 9

above) which would ensure the free entry

of their exports into Britain but not into

the other markets of the enlarged Community.

However such Protocols have since been

superseded, and there is no reason to

suppose that the Community would look

kindly on the suggestion being repeated.

28. We should not aim, in the case of the

former High Commission territories, to

secure more than the gradual application

of tariffs and levies over whatever

transitional periods are negotiated.

(iv) Rhodesia

29. We should put the Six on notice at the

appropriate time in the negotiations that

we might wish to raise the question of

Rhodesia when she returned to

constitutional rule.

(v) India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Malaysia,

Singapore, Nauru and Brunei

30. The provisional agreement over India

Pakistan and Ceylon reached in the 1962

negotiations was complex. Its main

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