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...signs of being ready to kick over at least some of the cartel traces. Recently A.K.U. directors were informed that Rhône-Poulenc, which has long held a near-monopoly of the French artificial fiber market, expected foreign producers to refrain from selling in France despite Common Market tariff cuts. Exploded one top A.K.U. executive: "I don't give a damn what they expect...
Knowing that they cannot afford to fail, the conferees will probably reach an agreement. They have been helped by a decision of the Common Market nations, which originally planned to admit coffee from France's former African colonies virtually free of tariff while slapping stiff duties on Latin American coffee. Now the Common Marketeers have agreed to slash their general coffee tariff by 40%, giving Latin American nations a chance to compete too, so that these hard-pressed nations will not require so much foreign aid. Explains Françoise Gavoty, France's delegate to the coffee conference...
...especially entertained by your repeated suggestions that Britain abandoned or was about to abandon "free enterprise" from 1880 on. Not until 1932, under the leadership of Neville Chamberlain, did we follow the bad example set by the Republican Party in 1861 when, by establishing the Morrill Tariff, the United States committed itself to drastic interference with the free enterprise system...
Since Australia was settled 180 years ago, the mainstay of its economy has always been British purchases of Australian wheat and wool. Now, with Britain dickering for membership in the Common Market and the whole system of Commonwealth tariff preferences threatened with extinction, Australia is looking around anxiously for other agricultural customers. And its eye has lit on Red China, whose own monumental crop failures have forced it to buy grain abroad. During the past two years, with the purchase of $180 million worth of Australian wheat, barley, oats and flour, Red China has become Australia's fourth biggest...
...initiative with unalloyed enthusiasm-and, at times, pushing it with so much vigor that the more discreet British are downright embarrassed. U.S. policymakers, like many in Europe, are still fearful that the Six, dominated by France and Germany, could become a "Little Europe" and then retire behind high tariff walls into a political third-force position...