4. Hong Kong therefore argue that, since "growth" was not raised or discussed at the
September talks, the arrangements set out in Heads C and F5 of the Heads of Agreement are applicable. They accept that, by a message passed through Carter after the conclusion of the talks and after his departure, Shaun Stewart offered 3% growth. But their
which case is that the proposed package it was agreed on the previous day to present to higher authority for approval represented a consider- able cut back on Hong Kong's existing level of trade and was accepted on the basis that no modification of the growth provisions in the Heads of Agreement had been proposed. They take issue with the statement in para-
graph 7 of our Saving Despatch No.712 that "the Aide Memoire did not provide for growth" pointing out that it said in fact that "HMG would find it very difficult to
contemplate any increase"
5. I think it would be the greatest pity if we were to jeopardise, for the sake of this point, an agreement which (it would seem) gave
substantially more than we were prepare
to settle for us very much of what we sought. I refer
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here to a draft letter to the Director
General of the Textile Council, covered by Shaun Stewart's minute to you of
20 September, 1968, in which you were able to say that you "gave away only 40% of the margins set by the negotiating limits". (Since this department was not shown the
negotiating instructions we have no other
source of information on which to base a
judgment of the "success" of the negotiations from your departmental viewpoint).
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