8.
These difficulties for both ourselves and the Six of
a literal application to us of their present arrangements
for cotton textiles in the GPS are such that a solution
will clearly have to be found by negotiation during 1973. Indeed the Commission have expressly said that a solution to these problems can be found within the framework of
the technical adaptations which would have to be carried
out during 1973 to enable the Community's Generalised
Preference Scheme to be applied a dix from 1 January
1974. So this does not seem to be an immediate problem.
9. More difficult is the short term problem on cotton
textiles. The Community are apprehensive (of para 3 above)
about the effect of our abandoning qr on 1 January 1972.
And the Commission have told us that in their view (which
we accept as juridically correct) the agreements of the
Community with seven countries (India, Pakistan, the UAR,
Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan) under Article 4
of the Long Term Arrangement whereby exports of cotton
textiles from these countries to the EEC are restrained
to a certain level, will automatically apply for the
remainder of their life until September 1973 to include
the UK (and the other candidates) from 1 January 1973,
subject naturally to renegotiation of the quantities involved
unless we secure a specific derogation from the Conference.
The Commission see our integration into these agreements
from the date of accession as the means of bringing us
back under a quantitatively controlled regime in advance
of the need to reach agreement within the enlarged Community
on a mandate to negotiate the arrangements which would
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