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Trade: Howe minute to Tebbit ("A New GATT Round") ["[Our] overriding interest... is to preserve the system of comparatively free trade represented by the GATT. Perhaps the main threat... is the mounting [US] protectionist pressure... The French and the Italians are instinctive protectionists, which we and the Germans are not"] [released Dec 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1648 f186
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 9pp
Themes: Foreign Secretary’s minutes, British relations with France, British relations with Italy, British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, British relations with the US, Foreign policy (development, aid, etc), European Union (general), Foreign policy - theory and process, Agriculture, Industry, Public spending & borrowing, Trade, Economic policy - theory and process