TNAG-0302-FCO40-338-Effects-of-tariffs-on-imports-of-cotton-textiles-to-UK-from--1971 — Page 160

CONFIDENTIAL

iat we could aim for a longer-term policy. On the

it is

her hand, if the FOO accepted the thesis that the stop-

wr aftanis quick in consultations with our

tp operation cannot

even

if

ppliers, really get under way until a decent pause

agreement

a ter 1 July 1972, and that in any case we shall need to

cuss with the Community early, in the second half of

coverage there shoved be for

4

1/2 what should-be-in/the renegotiated article for

a reements, the time between stop-gap and possibly

only

1 ger-term considerations will then be a matter of

V y few months.

WT WE WANT IN COMMUNITY MULTI-FIBRE POLICY?

The DTI do not have a common view on whether the 1r levels in the current EEC Article IV Agreements a complete evidence that for post-1973 the Community

ld argue strongly for maintenance of existing levels (possibly a cut-back) of cotton textiles into Britain. Tł re are indications in the Commission itself, that a wish f a "free circulation" Community policy on textiles, ton together with indications that individual countries

the b (1r example Germany) in their voluntary restraint

a cements with LDCs have adopted a reasonable attitude. 10.

I therefore the Government is prepared to maitain the unrlying reason for the tariff policy, ie of British

ir ustry standing on its own feet and we wish, as we stated in other contexts, for an outward looking

ha

Co unity, we would need to consider what level of

im arts for textiles we would want to accept for Britain

with the Animsonin ari. for the Community as a whole and to discuss the best

of getting these levels, and whatever increase was

fe desirable, firmly on international record.

NOTHING TO BE Written in this MARGIN

a

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS 'MARGIN