US claiming farm exports

Workers Press no. 1009, 28 February 1973 · scan pages 3, 4

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ful labour leaders.

NIXON talks with the on compensation for British entry to the Common Market, which has affected American farm exports.

White House adviser Peter Flanigan said in Washington that the talks would be held well in advance of the international trade talks under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the autumn.

American officials are insistently demanding the abolition of the EEC's high tariffs on agricultural produce from abroad-tarifis which are designed to protect European farmers against competition from their more efficient US counterparts.

Britain is a prime target of US demands for compensation | because having only just joined the Common Market, it has worsened the position of American exporters who previously relied on the British market.

Flanigan told a congressional committee preparing President Nixon's Trade Bill that the US balance of payments deficit could not be overcome by restricting imports. 'We need policies which However, as Flanigan well knows, US exports can only be raised by forcing other countries to cut back their trade and accept more American In retaliation against the mounting protectionism in the Us, the Common Market is making a formal complaint about US companies' special tax deferments under the Domestic and International Sales Corporation scheme sponsored by the government.

They complain that this violates the terms of GATT. However, the US has indicated it does not accept that the DISC scheme violates any trade agreement and has consistently made it clear it regards GATT as an outmoded and administration plans to have British government next month will increase exports, he said.

goods by contracting domestic industry. impotent body in the present situation.

The Campbell family in Battersea, south London, is totally committed to fighting the Tories and their state pay laws. Vincent Campbell works at Ford's and his wife Mistrel in a local hospital. Both could soon be strike together. Here they talk to Philip Wade. February