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Complacency Regarding Market Unity Born of De Gaulle Rebuf By WILLIAM ANDERSON' United Press International BRUSSELS (UPI) - Some of the urgency has gone out of the drive of the Common Market na tions to cap their economic part nership with full political unity. Such unity remains a major goal and some of its proponents are still urging haste, but where a year or so ago it was being pushed hard on all Common Market fronts there is today more of a "no need to rush" at titude. This complacency, born of full employment, high wages and in creasing standards of living, has been increased by French Pres ident Charles de Gaulle's re fusal to allow Britain into the European Common Market. British membership now seems unlikely in the general's life time and many "Europeans" thus robbed of an immediate target have lost the fiery en thusiasm for political entity that was evident before the rebuff to Britain last January. Politicians are becoming more reluctant to suggest that the drastic legislation needed to unite the continent be rushed through. Their national electo- raies, oeuer oil man at any time in history, are less willing I to experiment with their well-! oeing. Makes Big Studies Economic integration, mean time, is marching ahead with giant strides but not without dangers. There is growing evi dence that the continent's two! economic blocs represented bv : the six countries of the Com mon Market France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Hol land and Luxembourg and the seven countries of the Eu ropean Free Trade association (EFTA) may be drifting apart. The EFTA countries Brit ain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland and Portu gal were on the point of dis mantling their trade agreement when it seemed Britain would join the Common Market. But since the De Gaulle veto of British entry the EFTA coun tries have shoved up their or ganization to meet the competi tion of the bustling Common Market. tuiT TRADE ASSOCIATION ffesaj MARKET MEMBERS MAI'I'EU-This newsmap designates which countries are European Common Market countries and which are European Free Trade Association members. (UPI) Both trading blocs are pros perous but EFTA countries ex ported twice as much per cap ita last year as did cither the Common Market or the United States. The combined exports of seven nations totalled over $38 billion. Cuts Tarrif, Too EFTA also is matching t h e Common Market in tariff cuts among members, and tariffs on industrial exchanges have been cut by 50 per cent by both groups. EFTA's members like to point up their organization has man aged its business with s secre tariat of some 40 people com pared to the 3,000 "Eurocrats" working (or the Common Mar ket. The comparison is not real ly valid. EFTA does not touch on agricultural exchanges, has no political program and no supra - national authority as does the Common Market. Recently a group of parlia mentarians from EFTA met in to discuss their world image. Some right - wing legislators went so far as to suggest that EFTA should set up a rival common market among mem ber nations. This would have meant extending tariff cuts to farm produce, setting up politi cal aims, and establishing an over - all directing authority. This extreme idea got little sup port but it did spark a motion that EFTA should publicize it self more. The essential difference be tween EFTA and the Common Market is one of sovereignty. Follow Orders In the Common Market t h e six members are merged eco nomically and they all must fol low the directives of the mar ket's authority. In trade negoia tions. they bargain as one. EFTA's members, on the oth er hand, are seven sovereign nations who have surrendered none of their independence but simply have gotten together to ease trade barriers among themselves. All trade problems are handled on a nation to na tion basis. Politically, as well, EFTA's members are complete ly independent and in the pres ent grouping could hardly be otherwise with, for example, such different regimes as Swe den and Portugal. Majority opinion in EFTA pre fers "la difference" but at the Strasbourg meeting the paiiie mentarians did nevertheless dis cuss increased contacts with the Common Market. The discussion was extended some time later by the EFTA representatives to talks with Common Market officials. The sole result of the EFTA Common Market talks was a vague motion that contacts should be continued via the Council of Europe. This idea is not likely to be efficient as the council is only a consultative body. Portugal, an EFTA mem ber, is not a council member; neither is Finland which is an associate member of EFTA. The only real bridge is a quar terly meeting between the six Common Market countries and Britain within the framework of the Western European Union. This excludes the other s i x EFTA members, however. Chicken War The Common Market too, is flexing its economic muscle. Its SECTION C PAGES 1 to 12 MedfordTribune MEDFORD. OREGON. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1963 foreign ministers recently re cently refused to bow to t h e United States in a wrangle over imports of American chickens in what has become known as "the chicken war." The amount in volved was only $46 million a year but the ministers refused to lower their tariffs sufficient ly to allow the Americans to re tain a market they formerly dominated. This may be a point- 11 x i. us 1 ill I i j jj CITATION PRESENTED Bernard Baruch presents the Presi dent's Citation to Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson at the People-to-People Sports Committee's sixth annual "Dinner of Cham pions" in New York. Mrs. Payson, vice president and director of the New York Mets baseball team and co-owner of Green tree Stables, is the first woman ever honored at the event. The program was started seven years ago by former President Dwight Eisenhower to further international sports exchanges. (UPI) er to the attitude towards Amer ica's St. 2 billion a vear farm exports to Europe. Extending itself to Africa, the market has associated 18 French - speaking countries on that continent in an economic convention. Greece and Turkey have also hurried into associa tion. Iran has initialled a trade agreement for agricultural pro duce. Russia, too, is seeking tariff concessions from the "six" to increase her cash sales of cavi ar, crabmeat and vodka over Europe's bustling shop counters. EFTA countries and especial ly Britain are suspiciously watching Common Market over tures to the English speaking nations of Africa hitherto an almost exclusive British mar ket. Already preliminary talks are under way with African giant Nigeria with a view to drawing up a trade agreement giving Nigerian cocoa, vegetable oils and tropical timber greater ac cess to the "six." Fear Economic Split All these moves worry the "Europeans" in EFTA and the Common Market. They fear that they herald a permanent split between the two economic blocs. The blocs may develop along different economic lines if there is no contact or coordi nation. This would make politi cal unity more difficult at a later date. The "Europeans," who in clude Frank Figgures, secre tary -general of EFTA, and Walter Hallstein, the Common Market's chief executive, there fore put great hopes on t h e forthcoming "Kennedy round" of tariff negotiations. These ne gotiations are due to open in Geneva in May, 1964. They will be the biggest trade talks in the history of the world. It is hoped that cuts of up to SO per cent in industrial and agricultural tariffs will be ne gotiated at this conference on all goods passing between the 50 nations which subscribed to the general agreement on trade and tariffs (GATT). France Included Franco has been cool to these negotiations but is being car ried along by the other five Common Market partners into what will certainly be some tough bargaining. But if the "Kennedy round" is successful it may help break down the tendency of the Common Mar ket and EFTA to settle down in different trading patterns. 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