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Volume #23 - 808. | |||||
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CHAPTER VIII INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS | |||||
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PART
1 GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE | |||||
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SECTION
A FOURTH ROUND OF TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS | |||||
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Memorandum from Secretary of State for External Affairs to Cabinet | |||||
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CABINET DOCUMENT NO. 4-56 CONFIDENTIAL |
Ottawa,
January 4th, 1956 | ||||
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Tariff negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade will open in Geneva on January 18th, 1956. The Contracting Parties to the General Agreement were informed, in pursuance of the Cabinet decision of July 19th, 1955,1 that Canada proposed to participate in these negotiations. As a result, an exchange of requests for tariff reductions has taken place with a number of other Contracting Parties. It appears that there is a basis for a fairly narrow but profitable negotiation with the United States and that there is some possibility of conducting useful though limited negotiations with other Contracting Parties, namely: Austria, Benelux, Cuba, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Norway and Sweden. The purpose of these negotiations would be to reach agreement on tariff reductions on a mutually advantageous basis. The results of these negotiations would be submitted to Cabinet for approval. It is recommended that the Delegation should consist of the following: Head of the Canadian Delegation - Mr. L.D. Wilgress Head of negotiating team - Mr. Maurice Schwarzmann (Department of Trade and Commerce) Alternate head of negotiating team - Mr. Rodney Grey (Department of Finance) Other members of the Delegation - Mr. R.E. Latimer (Department of Trade and Commerce) - Mr. J. Loomer (Department of Trade and Commerce) - Mr. B.S. Shapiro (Department of Trade and Commerce) with an adviser to the Delegation to be appointed from the Department of Agriculture should that Department think it desirable.2 L.B. PEARSON
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