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on EC goods. It may contain a statement that full economic
integration is the ultimate objective, but will not contain
the timetable for the attainment of this objective that would
make it consistent with Atticle 24 of the GATT.
While Spain has long aspired to full membership in the
EC, the new Spanish Government, in which the economic ministers
have achieved unprecedented power, has made close ties with
Europe a major --- perhaps the major - - foreign policy objective.
The Spanish have warned us at a high level that if the
United States attempts to block closer Spanish association with
the EC, Spain might retaliate against American economic interests.
It is also clear that our ability to retain military base rights
in Spain would be jeopardized.
On the other hand there are important commercial policy
considerations involved. The United States has sought since
the end of World War II to develop a multilateral system of
trade and payments based on non-discrimination. A preferential
agreement between Spain and the EC would encourage the pro-
liferation of arrangements between the European Communities
and non-member countries which would be inimical to United
States economic interests and would seriously damage the
multilateral system of trade which has been built up in the
last two decades. * The agreement about to be negotiated
between Spain and the EC is clearly contrary to the GATT which
provides in Article 24 an exception only for arrangements lead-
ing under a definite time schedule to a free trade area or
customs union convering "substantially all" trade between the
participants.
The major courses of action open to us are:
(For a. fuller discussion of these options see Basic
Document, PP. 10-17.)
OPTION 1 -- Remain silent.
*
The broader problem of EC preferential arrangements and what
the United States can do to cope with it is being dealt with
separately.
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