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the CDA argue strongly that, for the reasons given in the letter, we should pebenden teriff when we ro-impose

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quantitative restrictions, and recommend that a decis-

ion in principle to this effect should now be taken.

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ppier li In A3(71)35, paragraph 7, the DII for their purt, argue

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that to removo beriffe upon the re-imposition of quantitative restrictions would be damaging, and consequently unwelcome, to both the UK and the BBC

textile industries.

11. This conflict of opinion cannot be settled satisfactorily in a single meeting. Happily, it need

not be. The Committee on 25 October is asked to decide

on the timing and nature of an early approach to the Community, without committing itself either to the details of subsequent negotiations or to the future development of UK textile policy, provided that no

derogation is sought from Community practices.

RECOMMENDATIONS

12.

a)

I recommend that the Secretary of State should:

agree to the proposals in paragraph 14

of the paper;

b) urge the Committee to leave over problems raised in the paper which need not be settled

at the meeting itself: and in particular to

defer consideration of whether, to maintainla

are intririned, they should or shall wot be cinly foun tariff-on-imported-cotton textiles onee

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quitas

quantitative-restrictions have been reintroduced.