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ADDITIONAL DEMANDS

3. A NUMBER OF MEMBER STATES HAD ADDITIONAL REQUESTS. DENMARK SAKED FOR QUOTAS ON WOVEN SHIRTS, T SHIRTS AND BLOUSES FROM MACAO, AND WOVEN SHIRTS FROM THAILAND AND SINGAPORE. BENELUX ASKED FOR QUOTAS ON COTTON YARN (SPAIN) AND T SHIRTS (PAKISTAN, MALAYSIA, PHILIPPINES, TURKEY AND GREECE). FRANCE ASKED FOR ADDITIONAL QUOTAS ON BLOUSES (MOROCCO AND TUNISIA) AND T SHIRTS (GREECE). WE EXPRESSED REGRET AT THE ABSENCE OF PAKISTAN AND

UGANDA FROM THE MEASURES ON COTTON YARN. WE DID NOT PRESS THE POINT WHEN THE COMMISSION CONFIRMED THEIR REFUSAL OF THIS REQUEST BUT SAID WE MIGHT WANT TO RAISE THIS AGAIN LATER. WE DID

ASK FORMALLY TO BE INCLUDED IN CONSULTATIONS WITH SINGAPORE ON

WOVEN SHIRTS ALTHOUGH WE DID NOT WANT ANY CHANGE IN OUR

KNITTED SHIRT QUOTA. THERE WERE NO OBJECTIONS FROM MEMBER

STATES TO ANY OF THESE ADDITIONAL REQUESTS BUT THE COMMISSION

SAID THEY WOULD STICK FIRMLY TO THEIR ORIGINAL PROPOSALS,

4. THE FRENCH ALSO ASKED FOR REVISED FIGURES FOR MANY OF THE

QUOTAS ALREADY INCLUDED IN THE COMMISSION REGULATION. THEIR JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS WAS THAT IMPORTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF

1977 WERE ALREADY SO HIGH THAT THE QUOTAS PROPOSED FOR THE

SECOND HALF OF 1977 WOULD LEAD TO UNACCEPTABLE LEVELS FOR THE YEAR AS A WHOLE COMPARED TO 1976. THEIR REQUESTS, WHICH WOULD STABILISE 1977 AT A LITTLE MORE THAN 1976 LEVELS, ARE AS FOLLOWS &

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SHIRTS

MOROCCO

TUNISIA

100,000

138,000

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BLOUSES

TURKEY

166,000

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