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"There are, of course, several levels. Once the quotas have disappeared, there will still be both the tariff level – which, as I have mentioned, is to be the subject of fresh multilateral negotiations, the principles of which, moreover, were set in Geneva last July – and everything we refer to as non-tariff barriers, in other words technical barriers that are also on the multilateral negotiation agenda. I am referring here to a series of technical measures as regards the composition of materials, protection against certain risks and specific characteristics that are imposed from time to time, in particular in the USA or in certain important developing countries, such as Brazil, South Africa, Egypt and India. These effectively amount to trade barriers which, under the pretext of protecting some specific local feature or other, have the effect of banning imports and protecting local producers.
This whole area of ‘non-tariff barriers’, of which I have just mentioned a few examples, falls within the framework of the multilateral negotiations that we have been pursuing in the Doha round, and what is true for textiles similarly applies to other sectors, such as the car and electronics sectors. This area of non-tariff barriers is therefore also part of the negotiations that we are pursuing within the World Trade Organisation."@en1
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