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16 DECEMBER 1969.
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FRIORITY HONG KONG TO BRUSSELS
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YOUR TELEGRAM 59: COTTON TEXTILES TO THE BENELUX.
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PLEASE EXCHANGE LETTERS WITH STOLP AS PROPOSED. YOU SHOULD NOW
HAVE RECEIVED A COPY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY DEPT AIDE MEMOIRE
OF 11 DECEMBER TO CONSULS GENERAL CONVEYING HONG KONG GOVERNMENT'S
ACCEPTANCE OF THE EXTENSION AND PROPOSING THE ISSUE OF PROVISIONAL
QUOTA TO AVOID A HIATUS IN THE TRADE IN EARLY 1979 AS
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WITH THE PRESENT GERMAN PROVISIONAL ALLOCATION, THIS ARRANGEMENT
WAS WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE AD REFERENDUM AGREEMENT. THE BENELUX
PROPOSAL WILL, HOWEVER, GIVE IT FORMAL COVER AND IS QUITE ACCEPTABLE,
2. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN HONG KONG PRACTICE FOR COTTON TEXTILE
RESTRAINT AGREEMENTS TO BE SIGNED HERE BY DIRECTOR OF COMMERCE AND
INDUSTRY AND CONSULS GENERAL RATHER THAN BY H.M. GOVERNMENT
REPRESENTATIVES IN THE COUNTRIES CONCERNED, UNLESS THE BENELUX
FEEL STRONGLY, I WOULD PREFER TO HAVE THE AGREEMENT SIGNED HERE.
(F.C.O. PLEASE PASS PRIORITY TO BRUSSELS)
SIR D. TRENCH
[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]
INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION:
COMMODITIES D.
H.K.D.
W.EUR.D.
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