TNAG-0386-FCO40-432-Exports-of-non-cotton-textiles-from-Hong-Kong-to-the-EEC-1973 — Page 78

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TO ROUTINE FCO TELNO 1829 OF 3 APRIL. 1973

MEETING OF 1025 COMMITTEE: COTTON YARNS.

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1. THE REGULATION 1825 COMMITTEE MET ON 2 APRIL TO DISCUSS THE BRITISH REQUEST FOR A DEROGATION FROM THE APPLICATION OF REGULATION 1925/70 WHICH WOULD PERMIT THE UNITED KINGDOM TO MAINTAIN QUANTIT- ATIVE RESTRICTIONS ON THE IMPORT OF COTTON YARNS (BRUSSELS TARIFF NOMENCLATURE NO'S 55.05 AND 55.26) FROM THIRD COUNTRIES. HOPE (C.T. DIVISION, DTI) ACCOMPANIED BY JAMIESON (UKREP) ATTENDED FOR THE U.K. THE ITALIANS WERE ABSENT, AS WERE THE DUTCH AND LUXEMBOUR- GERS WHO HOWEVER WERE REPRESENTED BY THE BELGIAN DELEGATION. PAOLI (COMMISSION) WAS IN THE CHAIR, ASSISTED BY FISHER OF THE COMMISSION'S

LEGAL SERVICES.

2. THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE COMMITTEE'S MEETING, ARRIVED AT WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY OWING TO THE OBTUSENESS, DELIBERATE OR OTHERWISE, OF THE FRENCH DELEGATE, WERE AS FOLLOWS:

(A) THE REGULATION 1925/78 ESTABLISHING A COMMON SYSTEM FOR IMPORTS FROM THIRD COUNTRIES APPLIED TO THE UNITED KINGDOM WITH EFFECT FROM 1 APRIL, AS LAID DOWN IN THE TREATY OF ACCESSION. THIS MEANT THAT THE UK HAD TO LIBERALISE ITS IMPORTS OF COTTON YARN.

(B) UNDER ARTICLE 5 OF THE TREATY OF ACCESSION, WHICH INVOKES ARTICLE 234 OF THE TREATY OF ROME, THE UNITED KINGDOM MAY MAINTAIN ITS BILATERAL AGREEMENTS WITH THIRD COUNTRIES WHICH WERE IN FORCE

BEFORE 1 JANUARY 1973.

(C) THE UK DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT IN RESPECT OF THESE AGREEMENTS TO IMPOSE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, BUT DOES HAVE THE RIGHT TO INSIST THAT THE EXPORTING COUNTRIES CONCERNED RESPECT THE EXPORT CONTROL PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN THOSE AGREEMENTS.

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