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Registry No.
DEPARTMENT
Hang. Kang
HW
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION PRIORITY MARKINGS
Top Secret
Secret
Confidential
Restricted Unclassified
PRIVACY MARKING
Plash 7
Immediate }
Priority Routine
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(Date)
Despatched
Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should reach addressee(s)
14/4/69
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Draft Telegram to:--
Hony
No.
(Date)
238
1414
And to:-
[Codeword-if any]
Confidential
Addressed to Eaton Hang Kung
telegram N..............
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repeated for information to
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MY COMMERCIAL COUNSELLOR WAS INVITED BY RODNEY GREY (DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE) ON 2 APRIL TO DISCUSS THE REPORT. GREY WAS NOT, FOR THE MOMENT AT ANY RATE, CONCERNED ABOUT POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF A TARIFF ON CANADIAN TEXTILE EXPORTS TO BRITAIN, BUT WAS CONCERNED TO UNDERSTAND BRITISH POLICY ON TEXTILES IN WORLD TRADE. HE WAS PREPARING HIMSELF FOR TALKS (TO INCLUDE OIL AND TEXTILES) IN WASHINGTON ON THE FOLLOWING TWO DAYS. GREY EXPLAINED THAT HE INTENDED TO DISCOURAGE THE AMERICANS FROM SEEKING TO HAVE THE LONG TERM ARRANGEMENT ON COTTON TEXTILES EXTENDED TO
• COVER ALL TEXTILES. THE CANADIAN VIEW WAS THAT PROBLEMS OUTSIDE COTTON TEXTILES SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE DEALT WITH AD HOC AND THAT EXTENSION OF FORMAL MULTILATERAL ARRANGEMENTS TO ALL TEXTILES WOULD BE DAMAGING TO WORLD TRADE. SENIOR AMERICAN OFFICIALS KNEW THAT THERE WAS NO ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION FOR MORE TEXTILE RESTRAINTS IN THE U.S.A. AND GREY OBSERVED THAT IF U.S. TEXTILE IMPORTS WERE LARGE ABSOLUTELY THEY WERE SMALL IN RELATION TO CONSUMPTION. HE WENT ON TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE JAPANESE WHO SEEMED TO LUMP THE CANADIANS AND AMERICANS TOGETHER. THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE THAT CANADIAN IMPORTS WERE, PER HEAD OF POPULATION,
L-DERIMADE
PERHAPS TEN TIMES THE AMERICAN LEVEL. HE WAS PERPLEXED THAT THE JAPANESE WOULD NOT REACH A SETTLEMENT ON TEXTILES WITH CANADA
AND CONCENTRATE THEIR FIRE ON THE AMERICANS. Ends /
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