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Mr. Carter (Hong Kong Dept.)
Cc:
Mr.
Milne.
Visit of Mr. Jordan
Deputy Director of Commerce and Industry,
Hong Kong.
In agreement with you, I have spoken to the Board of Trade (Mr. Dunnett) about the arrangement of talks during Mr. Jordan's forthcoming visit to this country. I told Mr. Dunnett that I understood (from you) that Mr. Jordan was now expecting to be in this country for the whole of the week beginning 24 November. I said that Mr. Jordan might take part in the talks with Herr Ernst in London on 1 and 2 December.
2. Mr. Dunnett confirmed that in response to a letter from Mr. Jordan suggesting that Hong Kong should be represented at the talks with Herr Ernst by Mr. Jones from Geneva and Mr. Dodge from Brussels, Mr. Goldsmith had suggested that it was desirable to keep the talks with Herr Ernst as informal as possible and that in these circumstances it would be preferable for Hong Kong to have only one represent- ative. If Mr. Jordan was likely to be in London at the relevant time he might feel that he would be the best person for this purpose.
3.
As regards the talks between Mr. Jordan and Whitehall Departments I have tentatively agreed with Mr. Dunnett that these might take place at the Board of Trade on the morning of Tuesday, 25 November (presumably under Mr. Goldsmith's Chairmanship). Mr. Dunnett and I envisaged that the talks might begin at 10.30 a.m. on that day with the subject of the Common Commercial Policy of the EEC. The meeting might then be joined by MinTech representatives at say 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of a discussion on textiles.
4. Mr. Dunnett now proposes to float these ideas amongst those concerned in the Board of Trade and will let me know the outcome.
5. Mr. Dunnett seemed to be under the impression that the Board of Trade might be required to take part in talks with the Governor of Hong Kong on the morning of Wednesday, 26 November.
6. Textiles Policy. There is a draft reply letter to Mr. Midgley's letter to Mr. Hughes of 30 October circulating in the Board of Trade. Otherwise there seems to be very little movement on the textiles policy front and Mr. Dunnett and I agreed that there did not seem to be much more we could do at the moment pending the outcome of the Japanese Prime Minister's visit to Washington. We also agreed that the idea of a message to the Secretary of State (Mr. Rogers) did not seem worth pursuing in view of the advice we had received from Washington.
7.
Mr. Dunnett told me that Mr. Carl Gilbert (the American special representative for trade negotiations)
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