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the descriptions.

This is a problem for both sides: the Commun·

ity's import figures for some products are either very crude

estimates Or not obtainable at all. In the case of one

item (anoraks, windcheaters, parkas) the Community admitted

that it could not isolate any import statistics for this item.

Despite this, we were urged, in all seriousness, to accept

the concept that the product could be a "very sensitive"

one, even though the Community could not produce any import

at all nor consequently any proposal for a limit.

They

asked us to produce our export figures to help them

to help them to decide

what limit to propose.

data at all

6. As has been mentioned, the proposed new categorisation

system contains a lot of changes from the existing one. But

where products in existing categories have been regrouped

into different categories, the Community sometimes has no means

of identifying the amount of trade in particular elements in the

new categories. Obviously this is necessary because the

appropriate quantities should be transferred to the new

categories. In other words, where product X may have been

transferred from Category A to Category B, the trade figures

for product X should also be transferred from Cat A to Cat B.

Where the Community does not have any figures, however,

it proposes to leave that portion of the limit represented

by the level of trade in product X in category A.

we could end up with quotas we cannot use at all.

In this way

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