TALKS TO RESUME

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30109, 18 April 1963, Page 9

TALKS TO RESUME

Denmark’s Claims

(N .ZJ> A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, April 17.

A senior Foreign Office official, Sir Roderick Barclay, is flying to Copenhagen today to resume British-Danish talks on Danish agricultural produce sales in Britain. The talks are expected to continue into Thursday, an authoritative source said in London yesterday. They will be a continuation of discussions appointed in London on March 14 by the Danish Foreign and Agriculture Ministers, Mr Haekkerup and Mr Skytte. The Danes consider the 5 per cent, increase of butter quota granted to Denmark from April 1 this year is too small.

They are believed also to be pressing for the removal of the 15 per cent, tariff on Danish butter, putting it on a level with Commonwealth butter and for Britain to increase her imports of other Danish foods. The British-Danish exchanges arise from a plea for reasonable reciprocity made by Denmark and other agricultural nations at last February’s Geneva meeting of the Ministerial Council of the European Free Trade Association. The E.F.T.A. Ministers then agreed on the need to accelerate industrial tariff reductions among member nations. The Copenhagen talks may be followed by a further British-Danish Ministerial meeting in London next week, according to informed sources.