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"We intend to introduce on 1 January 1972 a scheme broadly similar in coverage but sub- stantially different in its modus operandi".

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The Community's scheme covers almost the same list of developing...

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"Also the lesser roblem of the discrepancy between the EEC's list of beneficiaries and ours (we include five developing Common- wealth countries not members of the UNCTAD

Group of 77, and not therefore caught by the EEC scheme) which will need to be sorted out at some point".

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For reasons set out in paragraph 10 b), be- low, it is essential that we now establish within Whitehall at least, a clear picture of the alternatives open to us in the azing technical adaptation talks with the EFC due in 1973. These will naturally be conditioned by subsequent developments in the field of textile policy worldwide over