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imposed extensive import restrictions on cotton textiles

from developing countries. The European textile industries

have used this period for modernisation, and the prospects

for the 1970s will be towards the liberalisation of imports

of cotton textiles, though there may be more protectionism

in relation to non-cotton textiles. As regards the developing

Commonwealth countries in Africa and the Caribbean, and the

remaining colonies, we still hope that association on the

lines of the Yaoundé Convention will provide a solution.

A.

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The paper considers:

До the measures which, in the absence of special

arrangements, we should have to apply to Commonwealth

countries and the dependent territories (which in

this context include the West Indies Associated

States) if we joined the EEC. (This subject is

dealt with more fully in Annex 1);

B.

C

the arrangements made by the six for certain

developing countries under the Rome Treaty;

the arrangements which it would be our aim to

secure in order to safeguard essential Commonwealth

interests in terms of individual countries, or

groups of countries.

Measures we should have to apply

(i)

Tariffs and Preferences

Membership of the Communities would involve the applica- tion of the Common External Tariff (CET) to British imports from the Commonwealth. Except to the extent that special

arrangements can be made, Commonwealth countries would face

/positive

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