the form of country quotas, administered by the exporting country, and the other half being distributed to UK importers, who can use their entitlement to import from any country within the global group. In both the bilateral and the global arrangements, the quotas are broken down into over twenty categories of cotton yarn, woven cotton cloth and woven cotton
made-ups. There is however no restriction on knitted cotton
cloth and made-ups.
16. The UN has excluded nost textiles from its UNCTAD of `er, and from 1 January 1972 will have tariff protection against imports of cotton textiles from all cources except RPTA and the Irish Republic.
17. In the MFC, the Commission has negotiated restraint errangements with only seven low-cost suppliers of cotton textiles;
the product coverage differs from the UK's arrangements, in that cotton yarn is not controlled, but knitted as well as woven cotton is. In addition to these Community-wide restr int agreements, individual IEC member countries operete controls on importa of cotton textiles from the lesser developing countries.
16. Under the UNCTAD gencralised preference scheme, Indiu, Pakistan, S Korca and the UAR, which have all signed restreint arrangements with the Community, are to be allowed a restricted measure of duty-free access to the ERC market; Hong Kong; and Taiwan, both also under restraint, are excluded from this offer.
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19. Because the present ERC system is a combination of Com unity-wide agreements with a handful of countries supplemented by restrictions imposed by individual EEC countries on a variety of other developing suppliers, it would not be practicable for the UZ to use these arrangements as a precise model in any restreints which we decide to impose in 1972. In practice and in equity, we could notconfine our restrictions to the seven countries which at present have agreements with the Community as a whole.
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