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use. What he had in mind, for instance, were figures of Community investment in Hong Kong, public works contracts and other large contracts given to Community countries, etc. He had the trade figures but had not yet received Hong Kong export statistics for 1967. He asked whether these could be supplied and I said that we would arrange to have a copy sent to him. He also asked for any information on Timor and Macao, e.g. trade, investment, economic and social position, etc., etc. All this was rather vague but I said that if we could help we would do our best.
Treatment of Hong Kong
8.
We then returned to the question of sensitive products and the treatment of Hong Kong. I said that I had been through the figures again (admittedly only on the basis of 1966 trade) and would in general maintain the position set out in the classification of the list of "Hong Kong" sensitive products which I had given to Tran in January. As regards the general list of sensitive products I had found that, in most cases, Hong Kong either had no exports to the Community or her exports were very small in relation to other developing countries. Only in one or two instances was Hong Kong's position significant, e.g., electric torches. I was, however, somewhat surprised at the exclusion of textiic products from both of the original lists. Tran replied that cotton textile products subject to quota were being treated separately (I said we knew about this) but he was not sure what had criginally happened on non-cotton textiles.
However, these products were
now included in the new list. I asked whether, if Hong Kong were included in the scheme, she would also be given free entry for her cotton textile quotas in Community countries.
Tran
said that he thought that this would be the case.
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