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CABINET
MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON THE APPROACH TO EUROPE
MEETING ON 25 OCTOBER 1971
AE(71)35, EEC NEGOTIATIONS: ASSIMILATION TO COMUNITY POLICY
ON GENERALISED PREFERENCES AND COTTON TEXTILES
PROBLEM
1.
We have to decide very quickly, lest the remaining
negotiations be delayed or obstructed, what to say
to the Community about our eventual adaptation,
to which we are committed in principle, to the EEC
Generalised Preferences Scheme. In particular, we
have to decide on the date of adaptation, and about
problems arising over cotton textiles.
BACKGROUND
2.
This is explained in paragraphs 2 to 4 of AE(71)35.
Under our own Generalised Preferences Scheme, on
1 January 1972 we plan to abandon quantitative”
restrictions for cotton textile imports from
developing Commonwealth countries, and substitute a
tariff. But the Community scheme, to which we have to
Cami duly fin
adapt, retains quantitative
restrictions without
-tariffs. We are therefore faced with the awkward
prespect of changing back to quantitative
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