France’s GATT Conditions Get Little Support : Trade: Paris wants to keep tariffs on farm and film imports. It suggests dropping those issues from current talks.

France stuck to its guns Monday, after the European Community and other nations shunned its proposal that the thorny issues of farm products, movies and television be left out of a GATT trade pact so a deal could be made this year.

Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, who first made the offer over the weekend, told Europe 1 radio he would meet with French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur and other ministers today to identify the issues on which Paris could reach immediate agreement with the others.

That would mean putting off further discussion of prickly subjects, such as agricultural trade and France’s demand that it be allowed to protect its film industry.

EC Trade Commissioner Leon Brittan indicated Sunday, however, that the proposal was unacceptable to the European Commission, which negotiates on behalf of the 12 EC member states.

Brittan said some issues might be put off until after Dec. 15, the deadline for concluding the Uruguay Round of talks on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. “But I believe the most important issues must be settled before Dec. 15,” he told French television.

Juppe said that if this week’s EC-U.S. talks make no progress, France will present its list.

U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor is to meet with Brittan in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss an EC demand for changes in last year’s farm trade pact with Washington--a key element of the current talks.

He said he was also dissatisfied with progress on the film and television sector, which Paris wants exempted.

Culture Minister Jacques Toubon criticized U.S. cultural exports on Sunday, warning that France would veto any deal that left it open to what he called “the Coca-Cola/McDonald’s/Disney World lifestyle.”