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Registry No.
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DRAFT LETTER
Type 1+5
To:-
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Secret Confidential. Restricted
Unclassified.
A.G. Trickett,
Hong Kong Government
office,
54, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1.
From
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J.M. Healey
Telephone No. & Ext
WHI 2323 X. 470
Department
Common Market
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22/9
I am sorry for the delay in replying to
your letter to Gaminara of 18 August, asking
us to check the accuracy of a table you had
received from Jeaffreson, which sets out
various rates of decalage likely to have
resulted from the last EEC negotiations.
Gaminara is at present on leave and your
letter has been passed to Common Market
Dept. for reply.
2. We have checked the table, assuming
that the probable date of Britain's accession
would have been 1.1.64, and have the following
comments to make:
3. Column 1: Commonwealth General
Assuming that this refers to the rates agreed
for manufactured goods from Canada, Australia
and New Zealand, the 60% should be opposite
"By the end of the third year", since the
second alignment was to have taken place on
1.1.67.
4.
Column 2: India Pakistan Hong Kong, General
This rate was specially designed to apply to
India and Pakistan and had not been agreed in
respect of Hong Kong when negotiations broke
off.
As will be seen in the light of
para. 3 above, it was a more favourable rate
than that agreed for Canada, Australia and
/New Zealand