TNAG-0248-FCO40-284-Effect-of-entry-of-UK-into-EEC-on-exports-from-Hong-Kong-1970 — Page 70

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The confidential understanding noted that trade agreements

"could provide for tariff changes". In the case of trade

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 15 above) they

should be allowed to open negotiations on that basis.

But

the French insisted that the Communities must have some say

in which of the alternatives could be applied for by other

countries.

18. 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, Uganda, Zambia, Mauritius,

Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago. (This leaves

in doubt the cases of Fiji, Western Samoa and Tonga).

should be noted that these views of the EEC Commission will

not necessarily be acceptable to the Council of Ministers.

It

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