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argued the working towards liberalisation in that tariffs would enable reasonably efficient developing countries to maintain, if not increase, their trade.

To go back on these arguments, even before we have

had experience of tariffs, would be a denial of the

frequent affirmations of the new policy we have

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given specific admitments to all, the host sperpicking

India

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British Ministers and officials have given

several reaffirmations "of our intention to restrict

protection for our industry to tariffs from.

1 January 1972; the main statements to this effect

(the most recent of which was one by the Secretary

of State at a meeting with the Indian Prime Minister

on 1 November) are in Annex B.

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the tariff and the quota; the aim was to induce

UK industry to live with the tariff alone

in and Commonwealth Secretary said at

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