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makes in negotiations over the common agricultural

policy. Problems of sugar producers are dealt with in

nother negotiating brief. British Ministers have given

their Caribbean counterparts an undertaking on bananas

that "if the Caribbean Commonwealth Government countries

were to become associated with the EEC, the British

Government would seek rights for them equivalent to the

special arrangements already operating within the EBC for

traditional suppliers". These special arrang ments range

from a protocol to the Rome Treaty allowing duty free

entry into Germany for bananas, to strict import controls

operated by France in favour of her former Colonial

Territories. This commitment is, of course, not a

negotiating objective.

This is sabun

32. The Germans and Dutch have expressed concern to us

that the United States may oppose association with

the enlarged Community of the Commonwealth countries of the

Caribbean. There have been no signs so far of such

opposition on the part of the United States, but the

possibility of this emerging at a later stage should be

borne in mind.

33. The problem of applying the standstill period to our

tariff and non-tariff treatment of imports from the

developing countries of the Commonwealth which are regarded

as candidates for association is a complex one. In respect

of those countries which wish to seek association, it will

be our aim to get it agreed that the common external

kare

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