CONFIDENTIAL
BRITAIN AND THE E.E.C.
CONSULTATIONS WITH HONG KONG OFFICIALS
SECOND SESSION: 11 JULY, 1967 AT 10.30 a.m.
38B
RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No. 63
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United Kingdom Delegation
Sir A. Snelling (in the Chair)
Mr. A. W. Gaminara
Mr. P. Selwyn
Mr. C. J. Audland
Mr. D. G. Bentliff
Mr. J. B. Darlington
Mr. . Muir
Miss E. Willis
Commonwealth Office
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Board of Trade
Secretary: Miss M. Doyle
Hong Kong Delegation
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Mr. C. P. Haddon-Cave
Deputy Director of Commerce
and Industry
Mr. P. C. M. Sedgwick -
Hong Kong Government Office,
London
Mr. D. G. Jeaffreson
Commerce and Industry Department,
Hong Kong
G.A.T.T.
1. Mr. Haddon-Cave said that there were three aspects of the
G.A.T.T. problem:-
(i) because Britain was the metropolitan power and
Hong Kong a Dependent Territory, Hong Kong had no
G.A.T.T. relationship with the U.K. by virtue of
Article XXIV(1) of G.A.T.T.
(ii) through Britain having accepted the G.A.T.T. on
Hong Kong's behalf, the latter had a G.A.T.T.
relationship with the Six, as separate Contracting
Parties to the G.A.T.T.; Britain, as the metropolitan
power, spoke for Hong Kong at G.A.T.T. meetings etc.
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