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tariff and quota restrictions, which would normally apply

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progressively from the day of our entry into the Communities, should not be applied until the entry into force of the new

association convention. This would mean a standstill applying

to such countries until at least 1 February, 1975. We should,

however, have to agree that where a Commonwealth country which

was considered a candidate for association under the new Yaounde

type arrangements made it clear that they did not want to seek association, we should have to start applying the common external

etc. from the moment of our entry.

34. We might be under pressure from the Community to agree

that during this standstill period of perhaps two years from our entry into the Communities (say 1 January 1973) until the entry into force of the new Yaounde convention (1 February 1975)

we should start to reduce tariffs etc. on imports from countries

already associated with the Community under the present Yaounde

convention. We should resist doing this unless the Community

was prepared to make similar reductions in favour of the

"associable" Commonwealth countries.

35.

Our aim should be to secure for the independent Commonwealth

countries listed at the beginning of this section:

(i)

(ii)

that

confirmation/the 1963 Declaration of Intent, which

reflected the provisional agreements reached in

1962, can be carried forward in spite of the change

in the constitutional status of some of the countries

concerned;

an assurance that (i) extends to Malawi and Zambia

who were part of the Central African Federation, on

which no decisions were taken during the 1962

negotiations;

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(iii)