107. Editorial Note
On March 3, the President of the Commission of the EEC, Walter Hallstein, unveiled a new series of proposals for acceleration of the customs union provisions of the EEC treaty. Included were proposals for the elimination of quotas on trade with non-EEC states by the end of 1961, reduction of tariffs on intra-community trading by 50 percent by December 31, 1961, and the reduction of the EEC common external tariff by 20 percent on July 1, 1960. For text of these proposals, see EEC, Commission, Recommendations de la Commission en vue de l’ Acceleration du Rythme du Traité (Brussels, 1960). The EEC proposals were made without consultations with the member states. The U.S. Government endorsed the EEC proposals in a Department of State press release of March 4.