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CONFIDENTIAL

With the lack of a Community policy on textiles, this

will not be easy (and it could still mean stop-gap

action in 1972 if imports increased alarmingly) but it

could be smoothed if we could carry the Community with

us in an approach to GATT to extend the LTA both in scope

and in time.

11. If EPC agree with the foregoing, the necessary

ground work might be handled soon by the W.G.E.