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Registry
No. HKK 6/24
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
DRAFT letter
As a drafte for
Io:-D.1. Dunnett, Esq.
B. W. Maynell, Esq., CRE 3,
Board of Trade. (3 copies)
Type 1 +
From
Mr. Carter
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
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Copies to:
J. Ingram Mor Dunnett (CRE BOT)
R. G. Britten
TPD
J. A. Robinson
European Inte- gration Dept.
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K. . Christofas
UK DEL, Brussels,
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EEC Common Commercial Policy: Hong Kong
As of course you know, the Commission have recently
a further taken another step in the direction of an EEC common
commercial policy by tabling with the Council proposals
dealing with the importation of a number of items of
for
relevance to Hong Kong's trade with the Community. There proposals involve the imposition of annual import quot as
(a) annual quotas of 2.5 million units for umbrellas
and parasols and
Sif
we do not make representations on these clams There is
danger that Hong Kong's case will go by default and
such restrictions will appear as a built-in feature of the common commercial policy, extending at least over The whole range of commodities on which France has incintaimed import quotas. Quite What we might have to achieve is difficult to foresee. There seems with likelihood that we shall be able
little
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Hong Kong's behalf, enabling on the Colony
discussions
as a result of which Hong Kong might in bilateral with the Commission be able to negotiate better terms and might even succeed in other securing export restraints mitead of import restrictions ( a possibility for which the Regulations provide).
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