IN THIS MARGIN
Registry
No. HWB.6/20
DRAFT LETTER
To:-
Top Secret. Secret. Confidential. Restricted.
Unclassified.
Staff in Confidence.
The Hon: Gwynneth Dunwoody,
M.P.,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary,
Board of Trade.
13.
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
You will recall the discussion at the Ministerial
Meeting on Hong Kong held on 22 September, of Hong
Kong's request that our overseas posts should supply
information to the recently established Hong Kong
Export Credit Guarantee Corporation. It was agreed
that I should discuss the proposal further during my
visit to Hong Kong in October, with a view to finding
out
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** might be
Birable to
R. There have already been
Somme
exchanges on this matter between our
long drawn out-
departments at
in the
official level. Your department concluded that we ing points:
coned not supply to Hong Kong material other than
of the hind supplied to other members of the Berne
oration's
overnment
is assumed
Union
for security
re arous
and
because of the
money are
on
staff in
кой ший
overseas posts.
additional work-load
of Hong Kong has to rely
on such information as its
membership of the Berne Union price produces
appreciate
e expected
for
Will
we
that it will be
very defineret
short-
q
information
y
redit
iniaque, be very
any kind about countries which are not members be
of the Union, apart from it's inability to
on
economic
information
obtain dyective /reports of a general nature a much wider range of countries. As a dependent territory for whose external relations we are responsible, Hong Kong is not in a pontion to collect information from abroad
except makan
Commercial channels.
on
very
a limited basis through
St is our
responsibility
as
information
The metirgichtan country to do what we can to provide Hong Kong win the on which to base it's external trade policies.
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