FOREIGN 'ECONOMIC AND .COMMERCIAL POLICY


    such revisions as may be necessary:to bring them into conformity
    with those provisions and conclusions;
       (e) A recommendation that contracting parties who consider
    themselves adversely affected by export restrictions of other con-
    tracting parties which appear inconsistent with the provisions
    of the GATT should avail themselves of the consultation pro-
    cedures provided for in the GATT, with a view to ironing out
    their difficulties;
       (d) An instruction to the Secretariat to circulate the con-
    tracting parties prior to the next Session with a questionnaire on
    their existing quantitative restrictions on exports as defined in
    Article XI, except those subject to the Security Exception provi-
    sion and the Protocol of Provisional Application, such question-
    naire to call for a description of each such restriction and an
    indication of the'GATT provision which exempts such restrictions
    from Article XI, paragraph 1.6

    At its February 6 meeting TAC deleted a final subparagraph ("e"),
which
would have instructed the Secretariat to prepare a request based on the
questionnaire.
  As a result of these actions, the United States Delegation submitted to
the
fourth session of the WP's a memorandum, "Review of Application of Quantitative
Restrictions on Exports designed to Stimulate Exports or to Afford Protection
to Domestic Industry" (Doe. GATT/CP.4/14, Feb. 23, 1950, Lot 57D284,
Box 112).


International Trade Files, Lot 57D284, Box 110
Position Paper for the United States Delegation to the Fourth ASession
               of the Contracting Parties to GATT'

SECRET                            [WASHINGTON,] February 16, 1950.
TAC D-80/50

      CERTAIN ASPECTS OF QUANTITATIVE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS
                            THE PROBLEM
  Two, separable problems with respect to quantitative import re-
strictions may be considered in the Fourth GATT Session:
  I. What can be done to reduce the protective incidence of quanti-
tative import restrictions whose ostensible purpose is to protect a
country's balance of payments?
  II. What position should the U.S. take with respect to the dis-
criminatory application of quantitative restrictions as against dif-
ferent countries, where the difference in treatment is not justified on
balance-of-payments grounds?
  Adopted by TAC at its meeting on March 3, 1950 (Doc. TAC M-65/50, March
3,
1950, Lot 59D599, Box 302), with revision noted In bracketed note on p. 713.


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