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spun yarn or filament yarn with twist.
7.
With regard to paragraph 2 of the H.K. Government's
Note, Mr. Nehmer noted that imports from Hong Kong of
man made fibre products reached only 24/100 of 1% of
production and 23/100 of 1% of consumption.
It was
not just the impact of Hong Kong's imports which was of
concern but the impact of total imports especially from
such countries as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Israel.
Hong Kong was the second major supplier of textiles to
the United States.
8.
Mr. Jordan enquired whether it was only Hong
Kong and Japan which had been asked to negotiate compre-
hensive bilateral agreements and whether the U.S. Government
was talking in terms of the existence of market disruption
or the threat of it. Sir Eugene Melville asked whether
the U.S. delegation could name the other countries which
the U.S. Government had or intended to approach, and
pointed out that although the U.S. Government was concerned
with the totality of imports it must expect if it raised
matters bilaterally to be questioned in some detail on
the contribution of an individual country to total imports
and the effects on domestic production of that contribution.
Mr. Nehmer said that other low cost suppliers would be
asked to negotiate comprehensive bilateral agreements;
one had already been asked. He would prefer not to
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