File concerning the inauguration of the EFTA Action Committee, its mandate, objectives and activities includes: agendas of meetings, correspondence between member countries’ action committees, reports of meetings of Committee with lists of participants and lists of members of national committees; Report of proceedings of a meeting of the EFTA Continuing Standing Committee on the best way the EFTA Action Committee could function; Note on acceleration of tariff reductions (29/03/61); Note on EFTA and agricultural trade and the differences between EFTA and the EC on their approaches in dealing with the agricultural implications of their new relationships; Memo by Sir Beddington-Behrens for meeting on relations between the EEC and EFTA (04/1964); Communiqué of International EFTA Action Committee on its objectives: strengthening EFTA, free movement of capital, impediments to trade, trade with developing countries; Letter to D. Walwin Jones, International EFTA Action Committee from George R. Young, head of EFTA Information and press on Britain’s disregard for the Stockholm Convention (11/1964); Draft press communiqué on EFTA’s aim for the creation of a single market for the whole of Western Europe and the need to deepen cooperation with the EE (03/1965); Draft communiqué reporting on Action Committee Meeting (11/1966) on the imminent removal of quotas and tariffs on all industrial goods between the "8 EFTA countries participating in the first successful free trade area organisation in the world"

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