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RECORD OF A MEETING AT THE FOREIGN AND COLORAL OFFICE 17

OFFICE/76

BETWEEN MR BOTTOMLEY AND MR CLEVELAND OF THE US EMBASSY:

1700 HOURS,

WEDNESDAY 2 JUNE 1971

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1. In addition to agricultural levies and export restitutions

(discussion reported in FCO telegram No. 1554 to Washington),

MR CLEVELAND raised the following subjects.

Mar/916.

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US TRADE INITIATIVE IN OECD

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He said that he had understood from Sir Max Brown that the

British attitude to the US initiative was:-

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basically in favour,

not to get strongly involved, leaving it to the

EEC and US to make the running,

that GATT should not lose face.

He added that neither the US nor the EEC thought the time

was ripe for trade negotiations now but that the initiative

in the OECD would enable discussions which might lead to trade

negotiations, while having the advantage that by, as it were,

definition no negotiations could take place until GATT were

brought in. MR BOTTOMLEY said that the British attitude on

GATT was to maintain its importance as the right place for trade

negotiations; he enquired whether the initiative was part of a

concerted campaign in which the recent statements by

Secretaries Connally and Stans were part. MR CLEVELAND said

RECOVED IN at the initiative was one of the State Department alone and

REGISTRY No.51.

15 JUN 1971

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