COORDINATING COMMITTEE RECORD OF STATEMENT BY THE CANADIAN DELEGATE ON UNITED KINGDOM PROPOSAL TO REDEFINE ITEM 1635(B) - NICKEL BEARING STEELS JUNE 22ND, 1959

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• Publication Date: June 23, 1959
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June 23rd,, 1959
COCOM.Document No. 3416.35/13
COORDINATING COMMITTEE
RECORD OF STATE NT BY THE CANADIAN DELEGATE
ON
II ITFD KINGDOM OVQ34~ TO-nDE'INE.,ITEM, 163~b~~ NICKE._$EARIIG ,STEELS
June 22nd, 1959
Present: Belgium (Luxembourg), Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy,
Japan, Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
References: COCOM 3416.00/4, 3416.35/1 - 12.
The Canadian Delegate informed the Committee that his authorities had
carefully studied the points contained in the United States memorandum (COCOM
3416.35/9) but they were not prepared to change their acceptance of the United
Kingdom redefinition proposal. In the light of previous discussions of this
item they believed that the United Kingdom proposal provided reasonable safe-
guards and represented the thinking of the majority of Member Countries. The
Canadian authorities were prepared to examine any specific redefinition proposals
the United States might put forward but they hoped that the discussions would
not be prplonged interminabl r and that agreement on a more satisfactory
definition than that contained in COCOM 3300 would soon be reached. They
would be prepared to accept a modification of the definition proposed by the
United Kingdom which would have the effect of treating the presence of carbon
on the same basis as silicon and manganese as suggested by the United States
in paragraph 4 of COCOM 3416.35/9.
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