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and in the second bracket as a percentage of Hong Kong's total
exporte of all commodities):
Clothing
£20.8 million (18.5%)
(5.1%)
Textile Yarn, Fabrics and made up Articles
£15.4 million
(23.4%)
(3.8%)
Miscellaneous manufactured items
6.9 million
(11.0%)
(1.7%)
Footwear
Machinery, Apparatus and Appliances
Precious Metals and Jewellery
£ 3.8 million
(39.5%)
(0.9%)
£ 2.7 million
(11.6%)
(0.7%)
£2.4 million
(12.6%)
(0.6%)
Manufactures of Metal
£ 0.97 million (8.9%)
(0.2%)
Fixtures and Fittings
£ 0.75 million
(10.7%)
(0.2%)
4. A table setting out Hong Kong's principal exports in recent
years to Britain and to the EEC, the margin of preference which
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they enjoy in the British market, and the EEC tariff/levy treatment
of such exports is annexed.
50 All the items listed in paragraph 3 would be directly
affected by our entry into the Community, either by loss of
preference or by the application of the Common External tariff.
However, it is worth recalling that, while Britain's relative
importance as a market for Hong Kong's exports has tended to
remain steady or decline slightly
growing
Six has been increasing rapidly, Community
tariffs digeriminst102 49
in recent years, that of the
despite its demon sing of inta even in the fees of thercasing
essay olisin malip
each other and Jagainst Hong
Kong and other third countries. In 1960 the EEC took 4.8 per cent
of Hong Kong's total exports; in 1963, 7.6 per cent; and in 1965
9.9 per cent.
Hong Kong in the 1961/63 Negotiations
6. No provisional agreement had been reached before the
negotiations ended. The Six rejected the original British
proposal that Hong Kong should be associated with the enlarged
Community under Part IV of the Treaty of Rome. They did not
consider that association was appropriate for a dependent
/territory
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