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Accordingly, the Benelux Delegation stated that their Governments would undertake:
(a) to keep under constant review the possibility of withdrawing the invocation of Article XXXV in the light of the experiences which they would gain under the Agreement on Commerce, and to exchange views from time to time with the Government of Japan on this issue, and
(b) (1) to endeavour, cooperating with the Government of Japan, to attain a general und multilateral solution of the problem of “avoidance of market disruption” within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and
(2) to withdraw the invocation of Article XXXV against Japan as soon as a solution envisaged above, which is acceptable both to the Benelux countries and Japan could be achieved, and
(1) to endeavour, cooperating with the Government of Japan, to attain a general und multilateral solution of the problem of “avoidance of market disruption” within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and
(2) to withdraw the invocation of Article XXXV against Japan as soon as a solution envisaged above, which is acceptable both to the Benelux countries and Japan could be achieved, and
(c) to enter into discussion with the Government of Japan at an appropriate time well before the end of the three year period of the Agreement on Commerce to examine the possibility of applying the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade between the Benelux countries and Japan, in case the multilateral solution referred to in above (b) should fail to materialize within the two year period after the date of coming into force of the Agreement on Commerce.