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Mr David Hall
EID
Foreign & Commonwealth
Office
Downing Street (East)
London SW1
22 November 1973
Dear David
COTTON YARN QUOTAS
The attached draft submission to Ministers has now been agreed at working level in the DTI, and it is our intention to put it to Sir Geoffrey Howe and Mr Christopher Chataway in parallel as soon as possible.
A previous draft was circulated and discussed at the Textile Working Party meeting on 1 November. The FCO formally reserved its position, and we take it that this is still the case. But we have taken into account the views expressed by all present at that meeting, and you will see that there have been important changes in the substance and Vie rrangement of the submission. We hope that FCO officials will now be able to concur with the views expressed, and with the recommendations made to Ministers. -i You may decide that the issues should be submitted to FCO Ministers; if so, we hope that this can be done as soon as possible, since it will be necessary to have an agreed line in time to Bake the necessary action in Brussels before the end of the year.
Could you, and others to whom this letter is copied, please let us kuov as soon as possible, and certainly before the weekend, whether you agree with the content of the submission. To save time I am copying this letter and enclosure direct to Bill Nicoll in Brussels, as well a to Nigel Brecknell in the Cabinet Office and to my DTI colleagues directly concerned... May I leave it to you to distribute copies within the FCO?
Youns
hin Lowne
DL Lowne (Miss)
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