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Chairman at that stage.
This was,
in any case, a task for the Trade
Committee rather than the Group.
Conclusion
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This meeting did not take the main issues very much further forward
indeud, it was not expected to do so as
as far as OECD was concerned;
everyone is waiting on the tabling of the lists on 1st March.
However, some progress was made on procedural matters and some of the
discussions in the corridors were useful.
In particular the EEC
it is becoming clearer that
position now appears to be hardening up;
they will go ahead with their own scheme regardless of the positions of
other prospective donor countries and that this will involve a liberal
use of tariff quotas and almost certainly the exclusion of Hong Kong as
a beneficiary. I am naturally commenting on this in my further
memorandum referred to in paragraph 2 above..
DJCJ/mms
Distribution:
Director, Hong Kong (3 copies)
A.L.; A.B.; A.W.
Mr. Goldsmith (U.K. delegation to TDB)
Mr. Kemnis (Board of Trade)
Mr. Fall (UKKIS, Geneva)
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