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From
J. N. McKelvie
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
25
Trade Policy
Hong Kong Preferences on Indian Tobacco
Further to my letter of 7 October to Toms I now
attach a copy of a letter from the Indian High Commis-
sion on the above subject.
2.
before writing his letter
Bharadwaj came to see me on 26 November and
explained that he had received confirmation from the
Government of India that preferential treatment is in
fact accorded to certain imports from Hong Kong under
the terms of the UK/India Trade Agreement 1939. I said
that we would be pleased to receive details and under-
took to pass them on to the Hong Kong Government. I
added that I doubted whether this information would
affect the issue since our case rested primarily on the
reasons given in our Aide Memoire of 2 October.
Bharadwaj said that he appreciated our position but
hoped that the fact that India does accord preferences
to Hong Kong would persuade the latter 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 some £5,500 worth of trade is affected and
I assume that the preferential rate applied is 7%
ad valorum
cc. Hong Kong Sept(Fe)/4.
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As stated in para 2 above, I do not feel that this Ser(will affect the outcome of this case but I consider
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that we should now inform the Hong the position and would be grateful
before we do 30.
you may have before doing sen.
Kong Government of for any comments
your early