Notes by the Secretariat and Member Country delegations on: Temporary exemption of certain products from import duties, revenue duties, activities of the Association, reduction in import duties, also includes: Swiss proposal on the obligation to work a patented invention; The Austrian draft bill on a value-added tax; Progress report to Ministers – maintaining free trade between EFTA countries; Abolition and reduction of certain Swedish taxes; Variable import levy scheme – calculation of external reference prices; Temporary embargo on Danish exports of lime-free pebbles, gravel and shingle removed from the sea bed; Abolition of Swedish taxes. Extension of liberalisation; The effects on prices of tariff dismantling in EFTA; Imports of motor cars into Portugal; Revision of the scheme of taxation on manufactured tobacco in Portugal; Danish import surcharge; Statement of account for the financial year 1970 – 71; Note by the Secretariat on recent Danish economic policy changes; Taxation of alcoholic beverages in Portugal; Implications of withdrawing from the Convention. Report to Ministers by the Council at official level, 17 Dec 1971; Icelandic global quotas 1972.

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