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ex 841.751 Women's and girls' continuous synthetic fibre
anoraks and similar jackets
26.
Mr. Jordan observed that although Mr. Bernunger had stressed that with the modern generation there was no longer any clear distinction in the anoraks worn by the two sexes, he had not based his arguments on any decline in production of anoraks of synthetic fibres for both sexes: he only referred to production for all fibres. His main argument appeared to have been the decline in production of women's anoraks of synthetic fibres in the third quarter of 1968 as compared with that period of 1967: a fall of 4 from 115 to 111. Mr. Jordan pointed out that Swedish production of anoraks of all fibres was not relevant to the present discussion as Hong Kong did not produce woollen anoraks, and cotton items were under restraint. As regards the marginal fall in third quarter production of women's synthetic fibre anoraks, this could be attributable to loss of production through holidays, etc. However, the bringing together of figures of men's and women's synthetic fibre anoraks brought out the following position
Jan/Sept
1965
1966
1967
1967
1968
Combined production
449
666
874
678
679
Combined imports
195
265
667
554
787
Total from Hong Kong
93
115
344
275
465
Furthermore, most of the E/A items had yet to arrive. He therefore felt that there was a case for him to recommend that the Hong Kong Government should do something about these women's anoraks.
ex 841.764 - Shirts of discontinuous synthetic fibre
27.
Mr. Jordan handed over 3 copies of the table prepared by Hong Kong analysing production and imports etc. of each sector of the shirt trade: overall, knit, total woven, and woven synthetic discontinuous. These figures did not show any disruption in the woven synthetic discontinuous sector. Baron de Geer had earlier referred to substitution and trends. The Hong Kong view was that the facts and figures show that the trend to polyester cotton was limited by demand and taste: mixed blends were by no means taking over from cotton. While demand for polyester cotton shirts was being stimulated artificially by restraints against cotton, there was no substitution within the meaning of Article 6(b) of the C.T.A. event Hong Kong would also need to know what other restraint agree- ments Sweden had negotiated.
28. with-
In any
Mr. Henriksson replied that there were agreements in force
Portugal
Yugoslavia
covering woven cotton shirts (but not knit shirts);
covering all dress shirts of all fibres.
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