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PEPSOPES BASED OF GOMMERCIAL POLICY PWINGIPLIG
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TO THE / ROUMENTS WHICH THE CISSION CONTINUOUSLY USES TO ASSAIL UNILATERAL JAPANESE MEASURES WHICH, IN THE COMMISSION'S CATECHISM,
SUPPLIANT AND STIFLE COMMUNITY POLICY,
4. AS REGARDS. THE COMMUNITY DIMENSION OUR ARGUMENT THAT SINCE THERE
IS HARDLY ANY FREE CIRCULATION THEN THERE CAN BE NATIONAL MEASURES
(CG AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO UNILATERAL HONG KONG MEASURES) HAS
ONLY A LIMITED LIFE. THERE OBVIOUSLY CANNOT BE FREE CIRCULATION
UNTIL THERE ARE COMMUNITY MEASURES ALTHOUGH THE LATTER DO
NOT GUARANTEE FREE CIRCULATION, AS WE HAVE SEEN IN THE CASE OF THE
COMMUNITY'S COTTON RESTRAINTS.
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5. OUR ARGUMENT AGAINST MEASURES AT COMMUNITY LEVEL WILL NEED CARE-
FUL MANDLING. WE SHOULD AVOID ANY SUGGESTION THAT WE OPPOSE A
COMMUNITY SOLUTION TO THE HONG KONG PROBLEM OR WOULD PREFER NATIONAL 6) MEASURES BY MEMBER STATES. To no 80 WOULD CERTIANLY LOSE US THE
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GERMAN SUPPORT FOR OUR CONTENTION THAT MARKET DISRUPTION MUST BE
DEMONSTRATED. WHAT SEEMS TO BE REQUIRED THEREFORE IN THE NEXT
ROUND OF BISCUSSION IS THE NOTICE OF A COMMUNITY SOLUTION WHỊCH
WILL BE ONLY SELECTIVELY RESTRICTIVE. ONE ANSWER MIGHT BE A COMMUNITY
AGREEMENT EMBODYING NATIONAL SUB-QUITAS OF WHICH THE QUOTAS OF ALL ref BUT THOSE WITH GENUINE PROBLEMS WOULD BE CET AT LEVELS HIGH ENOUGH
TO DE UNGESTRICTIVE. THIS IS, IN FACT, A FAVOURATE PLOY OF CANST'S.
IT IS DIFFICULT IN PRACTICE TO IMACINE THAT A MANDATE COULD HE
WORKED OUT ON THIS DASIS PITHOUT MEMBER STATES TAKING ADVANTAGE OF
THE OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE UNJUSTIFIED RESTRICTIONS. THIS WILL
HOVEVER IN TURN CIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO BLOCK FURTHER PROGRESS
BY INSISTING ON DETAILED JUSTIFICATION FOR THE LEVELS OF THE
RESTRICTIONS, IT WILL ALSO ENABLE US TO AVOID THE DAMAGING CHANGE
THAT WE AME FAILING TO RESPOND TO THE NEED TO PROTECT THE INTERESTS
OF FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE NOT IN AS FORTUNATE A
POSITION AS WE ARE VIS-L-VIS HONG KONG.
FCO PSE. PASS ADVANCE COPIES TO :
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FCO DUTLER
OTI - RIDLEY
HAZLE
NIGS LOWNIE MISS ELLIOTT
PSE. PASS SAVING HONG KONG
PALLISER
NHNN
SENT AT 92/91817 EJ
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