Confidential
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Sir A Snelling
Draft Hong Kong Brief
As I expect to be at the C.C.P. meeting on
UNCTAD on Thursday when you are holding your meeting
on Hong Kong, I send you the following comments.
The statistice might be
2. Paragraphs 3 - 5.
brought up to date 1966,
of 30 June,
3.
4.
as in Mr. Selwyn's minute
A conclusion might be added in the sense that
"It seems that Hong Kong een overcome normal
tariffs. What restricts its exports is quota
restrictions. Britain, in joining the E.E.C..
would not be required to impose quota
restrictions, as long as these are matters for
individual Governments."
A new paragraph should be inserted after
paragraph 10 in the following sense.
5.
"If Hong Kong should ask that Britain, as part
of our negotiations with the 3.5.0., should
seek the enlargement of national quotas in
other member countries of the 3.1.C. for the
benefit of Hong Kong, it should be pointed out
that we could not ask that the commercial
policy of individual members of the Six should
become a matter for our negotiations".
Paragraph 14.
as follow6|
A sentence should be added
"Moreover (though we should not mention
this to llong Kong) it would be difficult to
austain a case with the Six for continued
free entry into Britain of goods from Hong
Kong of a type which we subjected to an
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