onforced.
And if we did succeed in forcing countries to take
non-discriminatory action under Article XIX we might find our
own trading interests danaged in the process,
7.
If a country was forced into unilateral discriminatory
action against Hong Kong we could be quite certain that it would
lead to import levels much lower than could be negotiated.
And
if such action was challenged in GATT on Hong Kong's behalf and
the door would have been opened for other importing countries to
treat Hong Kong in a similar way. There would be little sympathy
or consideration shown for Hong Kong in GATT. She would be without
the means of effective retaliation (Swedish exports to Hong Kong
are one-fifth of Hong Kong's exports to Sweden) and, short of
retaliation by ourselves on Hong Kong's behalf, there would be no
way of bringing pressure to bear on the Swedes.
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