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22 May 1969
said that the position was rather obscure. The German Consul in Hong Kong had told him that the Germans intended to abolish their wool quota arrangements and to liberalise the arrangements for cotton. It had been announced in Bonn that this was to be done but since then the German Consul had received no further instructions and he secmed rather embarrassed at the uncertainty of the position.
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I did not have a chance to go through the figures in the statement annexed to your letter with the Hong Kong authorities but I asked them if they could give me complete figures about the restraint levels agreed upon and they promised to do this. There are some further figures in the brief and the statistics which the Hong Kong Department of Commerce and Industry prepared for the meeting with Mr. Stane and I am arranging for you to be given an opportunity to see these and to take copies of anything you want.
(0.s. Whitehead)