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Registry
No. HKK 6/28
DRAFT SAVING DESPATCH
Type 1 +
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified,
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
To:-
Governor, Hong Kong
From
Secretary of State
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
(115281) Dd. 391599 1,500M 2/69 Hw.
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Hong Kong Preference on Indian Tobacco
Please refer to McKelvie's letter HKK 6/28 of 7.
copied to you, October 1969 to Tom's in the Board of Trade about the
Indian Aide Memoire on the elimination of India's pre-
ference on unmanufactured tobacco and our reply of 2
October 1969. I now attach a copy of a letter from the
Indian High Commission on this subject.
2.
This Dice
Bharadwaj came to see us before writing his letter
and explained that he had received confirmation from
his Government that preferential treatment is in fact
accorded to certain imports from Hong Kong under the
terms of the UK/Indian Trade Agreement 1939. We said
that we would be pleased to receive details and under-
you. took to pass them on to the Hong Kong Government. We
added that we doubted whether this information would
affect the issue since our case rested primarily on
the reasons given in our Aide Memoire. Bharadwaj said
that he appreciated our position but hoped that the
fact that India does accord preferences on products of
"active trade interest" to Hong Kong would persuade the
Hong Kong Government to reconsider their request in a
more sympathetic light.
3. You will see from the statistics given in
Bharadwaj's letter that, on the basis of the items
listed, only a very small proportion of trade is affec-
ted and we have no doubt that a further examination of
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India's trade statistics would not reveal any items on
which there is a substantial trade interest to Hong
Kong.
4.
In the circumstances we would be grateful for your
comments on Bharadwaj's letter in order that we may
reply to the Indian High Commission as soon as possible.
5. Copies of this despatch are being sent to Mr.
D. J. C. Jones at the UK mission Geneva and to our High Commissions in New Delhi and Zomba, and to the
Kong Government Dyce
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