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restrictions not later than 1 January, 1970.

In the 1962 negotiations, the Six were prepared to

negotiate a trade agreement with the proposed Federation

of Malaysia (i.e. Malaysia as now established, Singapore

and Brunei) if the Federation so requested and if this

proved necessary to maintain and develop mutual trade.

Since then singapore has withdrawn from the Federation;

Brunei, which becomes fully independent this year, never

joined it.

52. Mutual UK/EEC suspensions of the tariffs on tea and

tropical hardwoods has gone some way to achieving the aims

of (b) and (c) in paragraph 50. The enlargement of the

Community's quota arrangements on cotton textiles, and

voluntary restraint agreements with India and Pakistan

over jute goods have involved additional restrictions on

their exports to the Community of these products.

536 The EEC Commission paper on the Commonwealth of 1970

notes that solutions to the problems for these countries

raised by our EEC entry should be sought in terms of global

trade agreements, taking account of developments in the

field of the UNCTAD generalised preference scheme. The

paper also advocates a gradual application of the c.e.t. on

their exports to the United Kingdom (as the Commission have

suggested for the developed Commonwealth countries).

540 The extension of generalised preferences by the developed

countries to developing countries has been under consideration

since 1964. Whatever the details eventually agreed for the

scheme, it will be of benefit to all developing countries,

/especially

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