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Within the OEEC Britain conceived an inter-European payment scheme. As early as 1946 Bevin had asked the Foreign Office to consider the possibility of an Anglo-French Customs Union that others might join later. During the CEEC discussions the Customs Union idea came to the fore. The British delegation proposed the establishment of a Customs Union Study Group (CUSG) to meet in Brussels, and so away from American pressure in Paris, to consider the whole question of a Western European Customs Union from 1947.
550–51). As Milward says, in retrospect the UK’s decision not to participate in the formation of the first proposed West European Customs Union in 1948 was ‘a vital moment in British history when a wrong turning was taken … and everyone involved was aware of being faced with a historical choice of great moment’. The unanimous opinion of civil servants and those economists consulted was that a Customs Union would ‘automatically lead to much closer forms of political union and necessarily to the wholesale harmonisation of economic policies in Europe which in 1945–47 varied enormously’.
As Milward says, in retrospect the UK’s decision not to participate in the formation of the first proposed West European Customs Union in 1948 was ‘a vital moment in British history when a wrong turning was taken … and everyone involved was aware of being faced with a historical choice of great moment’. The unanimous opinion of civil servants and those economists consulted was that a Customs Union would ‘automatically lead to much closer forms of political union and necessarily to the wholesale harmonisation of economic policies in Europe which in 1945–47 varied enormously’.