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(6) CARRYOVER, ANTICIPATION AND SWING BETWEEN SPECIFIC
CATEGORIES ALL 10% AS PER HONG KONG PROPOSALS IN COT/W/122:
(7) FULL EXPORT CONTROL.
4.
IT WAS LEFT THAT TWO SIDES WOULD REFLECT ON THE OTHER'S
POSITION, PARTICULARLY ON THE MAJOR UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS OF COVERAGE,
GROWTH AND BASE. HONG KONG SIDE INDICATED THAT, IF (REPEAT IF)
THESE PROBLEMS SHOWED SIGNS OF BEING RESOLVED WITHIN THE TERMS OF
LTA, HONG KONG COULD THEN AGREE IN PRINCIPLE TO NEGOTIATIONS WITH A
VIEW TO CONCLUDING ARTICLE 4 AGREEMENT.
5.
ALTHOUGH IN MORNING SESSION ERNST WAS IN A SOMEWHAT
TRUCULENT MOOD AND EVEN THREATENED HONG KONG WITH EXTENSION TO THE
WHOLE COMMUNITY OF SOME OF FRENCH ARTICLE 2 RESTRICTIONS IF SHE
DID NOT ACCEPT AN ARTICLE 4 NEGOTIATION, HE WAS MORE RELAXED DURING
AFTERNOON. HE INDICATED AT THE END THAT HE THOUGHT THERE WERE SIGNS
THAT AN AMICABLE MODUS VIVENDI COULD EVENTUALLY BE REACHED BETWEEN
THE TWO SIDES.
6.
AS REGARDS NEXT MEETING OF CTC IN GENEVA IT WAS AGREED THAT
EITHER WEEK OF 27 APRIL OR 20 MAY IMMEDIATELY AFTER WHITSUN
(PROBABLY THE LATTER) WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE TO BOTH COMMUNITY AND
HONG KONG: JUNE WOULD BE TOO LATE. IN THE INTERIM COMMISSION
EXPECT TO HAVE CONSULTATIONS WITH INDIA, PAKISTAN, KOREA AND PERHAPS
U.A.R..
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17. ERNST ALSO