CYPHER CAT A
PRIORITY PARIS
TELEGRAM NUMBER 381
CONFIDENTIAL [NEUTRAL]
CONFIDENTIAL
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TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
18 APRIL 1969
ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TELEGRAM NUMBER
381 OF 18 APRIL 1969 RFI TO UKMIS GENEVA BERNE BONN ROME PARIS UKDEL EEC BRUSSELS BRUSSELS THE HAGUE TOKYO WASHINGTON AND SAVING
TO HONG KONG
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YOUR TELEGRAM 310: TO BONN.
MR. STANS AND TEXTILES
MINISTER (E) GAVE AN ACCOUNT OF THE U.K. POSITION TO BRUNET OF THE QUAI D'ORSAY THIS AFTERNOON. BRUNET SAID THAT A DEFINITION
OF THE FRENCH POSITION HAD BEEN REACHED AT AN INTER-DEPARTMENTAL
MEETING THAT MORNING AND THIS WAS VERY CLOSE TO OUR OWN. HE ADDED
THAT IN EXAMING THE PROBLEM OF IMPORTS OF NON-COTTON TEXTILES
INTO THE U.S.A., THE FRENCH HAD BEEN STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT
IMPORTS WERE HEAVIEST FROM MANY OF THE EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES WHERE
U.S. FIRMS THEMSELVES HAD MADE SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENTS IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY.
2.
BRUNET HAS PROMISED TO LET US HAVE AN ACCOUNT OF THE OUTCOME
OF THE FRENCH DISCUSSIONS WITH MR.STANS.
FCO PLEASE PASS TO UKMIS GENEVA BERNE BONN ROME UKDEL EEC BRUSSELS
BRUSSELS THE HAGUE TOKYO WASHINGTON AND SAVING TO HONG KONG
MR SOAMES
[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]
INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION
COMMODITIES DEPT.
T.P.D. H.K.D.
CONFIDENTIAL
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No.51. 22 APR 1969
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