§ Mr. Critchleyasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has received the Twelfth Annual Report and 74W representatives of the main importing and exporting countries should meet in Geneva early in February to carry out a preliminary examination of the possibilities of solutions to the problems of international trade in cereals and that the G.A.T.T. Council at its meeting later that month should consider the establishment of similar groups for other products.
The meeting on cereals will provide an opportunity for consideration of the French proposals, which were in extremely general terms, but it will also have regard to the views of other countries as expressed in the statements made by their representatives during the Ministerial meeting. In the meantime, I can make no estimate of their effect.