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accorded to jute exports in the enlarged Community (see Annex B). Otherwise, Bangladesh will be relatively little affected.
Pakistan trade
52. Pakistan is less dependent than India on exports to the UK. Raw cotton and cotton textiles make up roughly half the total. The former will continue to be duty-free and the latter will gain a measure of duty-free access from the beginning of 1974, when the UK adopts the EEC's generalised preference scheme. In January 1971 the Pakistan Government presented an aide memoire to the Community and bilateral discussions on the effects of enlargement were held in May. However, events were overtaken by the civil war, and Pakistan has subsequently expressed no interest in a trade agreement with the Community: we suppose that she is waiting to see how India gets on. Our preliminary enquiries with the Commission have led us to believe that both Pakistan and Bangladesh continue to be covered by the Declaration of Intent, but this has not yet been formally established.
Sri Lanka
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Tea makes up about three-quarters of Sri Lanka's exports to the UK and (provided it is not packeted) will continue to enjoy duty-free access to the UK market. In an aide-memoire presented to the EEC last October, the Sri Lankan Government pointed out that although Sri Lanka's three major exports to Europe bulk tea, raw rubber and coir - have duty-free entry to the EEC they are subject to considerable fluctuations in demand and price; this made it all the more important that her trade in other products e.g. coconut oil, tobacco, spices, fruit juices etc etc - should not suffer as a result of loss of preference in the UK market. Sri Lanka therefore asked the Community to "agree to provide Sri Lanka special facilities in the markets of the Community by means of appropriate arrangements in the tariff and non-tariff fields". So far as we know, the Commission has not replied.
Singapore and Malaysia trade
54. Both countries are members of ASEAN - which set up, in April 1972, a Special Coordinating Committee in Brussels in order to establish a continuing dialogue. The individual member states can nevertheless, continue to press their own cases on a bilateral basis. Neither Malaysia nor Singapore, however, have made strong representations about the economic effects of enlargement. Although the bulk of their trade will not be affected, vegetable (mainly palm) oils, which are significant exports for both countries, will be the main items to face positive tariffs (which protect the trade of the African Associates, particularly Zaire). Malaysian canned pineapple will also face increased tariffs and competition from Associates, particularly Ivory Coast. fast-growing manufacturing centre, Singapore is more concerned to see that the scope of the GSP is widened.
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