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MAY-JUNE
France continues to protect her producers by closing
her market to imports when the price of lamb drops and
only allows imports when prices rise above the threshold
level. But even then, Irish lamb carries a heavy levy
entering the market. Britain, on the other hand, because of
her geographical location, can often beat Ireland into
France when the market opens and therefore supplies
nearly half of France's 53,000 tons of import
requirements compared with Ireland's 3,000 to 4,000
tons. The balance comes from Eastern European
countries, Bulgaria in particular.
France imports 28% of her 190,000-ton lamb
consumption each year, so access for Ireland on an all-
year-round basis would mean exports of 6,000 tons or
more, worth in the region of £12 million, a major fillip to
sheep producers especially in the poorer regions of the
country, and would constitute a mere tenth of France's
total imports.
Mr. Clinton had hoped that the Community spirit
might have persuaded the French to allow some
concessions in the case of Irish lamb exports on the
grounds that, according to the Treaty of Rome,
preference should be shown by the EEC countries for the
produce of other Member States, and also the fact that
the French might reasonably be expected to show a
preference for Irish produce against that of Eastern
European countries.
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