COORDINATING COMMITTEE RECORD OF DISCUSSION ON ITEM 1635 - ALLOYS 5TH MAY 1960

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• Publication Date: May 17, 1960
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17 h May, 1960. C000M Document 3716.35/43
COORDINATING CO?!.ETITTEE
RECORD OF DISCUSSION
ON
IM ALLOYS
5th May 1960
Present: Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United
Kingdom, United States.
References: COCOM Docs. 3416.35,'3 and Addendum and corrigendum and 3716.353.
1. The CHAIRi~'AN drew the Committee's attention to C000M Doc. 3716.35/3
of the 17th March 1960, in which the French Delegation proposed a certain num-
ber of changes in the present text of item 1635. The Chairman asked the French
Delegation if they h.d anything to add to their statement recorded in the above-
uentione d document.
2. The FRENCH Delegate thanked the Chairman and explained that the
informal comments so far riade on the French Delegt=tion's proposal prompted him
to state v:.:ry clearly the reasons underlying the French positions The Delegate
said that the text of Item 1635, as it appeared at present in the Lists, gave
trouble to the French customs authorities. In the first place, the heading of
Item 1635 - "Alloys". In actual fact Item 1535 sometimes referred to alloys
and sometimes to steels. The Delegate pointed out that the word "steel" was
nowhere defined in the Lists. This word had been defined for the customs
authorities in all the O.E.E.C. countries by a decision taken at international
level in Brussels, and recognised by the E.C.S.C., and which had appeared in
Chapter 73/15 of the Customs Tariffs drawn uo in 1949 by the Study Group for the
European Customs Union. This -1cfiniti:-n was not, however, adopted by the United
States who regarded anything containing 55o iron as "steel", whereas in Europe
it was sufficient if iron were predominant.. Thus a mixture containing 35a iron,
32% molybdenum and 33% nickel Ras regarded as steel in Europe, but not in the
United States. This point therefore warranted discussion in order to avoid
differences of interpretation. The Delegate then explained that Item 1635(a)(1)
might lead to confusion with Item 1658(b), and that the same applied to Items
1635(a)(2) and 1648(b), since the percentages in14eated in both cases did not
correspond. Finally the Delegate stated that his Delegation would also like
at the same time to settle the problems of alloys where the expansion factor of
the metal had to be equal to the expansion factor of glass, i.e. those alloys
used especially in the m