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222. Paper Prepared in the National Security Council Staff

o do so. The MFN principle has come under great stress in the past few years, however, mainly due to the spate of preferential arrangements already developed by the EC . All of them so far have been with LDC s—the former French and Belgian colonies, Nigeria, the former British colonies in East Africa, Tunisia and Morocco. (Greece and Turkey also have gotten preferences but they are first steps in eventual full membership after a 22-year transition period.) The arrangements obviously help their economic development and the trade effects on outsiders have been small, so it has been both difficul…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1969-12-23
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume IV, Foreign Assistance, International Development, Trade Polic
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v04/d222
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76v04/d222`

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222. Paper Prepared in the National Security Council Staff. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76v04/d222.