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"There are two parts to my answer to this question. Firstly, I think I gave a clear answer to your question when I said that the difference between ‘all’ and ‘essentially all’ affected only a really very limited number of agricultural products. I am thinking particularly of sugar which can effectively constitute an additional resource for several of these countries. You know that the Community, and in this case the Commission, has considered the idea of a complete review of conditions in the sugar industry. These are matters to which we shall no doubt return. But that is something that only we need concern ourselves with.
Regarding the more comprehensive initiative that we have undertaken, I would like to try to convince you that at this stage it is more important, as far as these least developed countries are concerned, that the Community should persuade the United States, Japan and a number of developed countries to follow our initiative because, in terms of real export capacity, this initiative opens up a market to them which is, roughly, twice or three times larger than our own. In terms of our priorities, then, Mr Howitt, and in terms of efficiency, I feel that, given the choice of either eliminating the difference between ‘essentially all’ and ‘all’, a problem which I acknowledge must be solved one day, and considerably increasing the size of the market opened for ‘essentially all’ products, duty free and quota free, we are on the right track if we work, in the first place, on expanding the market. Thereafter we will be able to start to think, as you wish, on the approach we might adopt with the Member States, who sometimes show some reluctance, and a European Parliament which will also have to be convinced, when the time comes, that we should go on to the second stage."@en1
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