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Date and time (G.M.T.) telegram should
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Draft Telegram to:---
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And to:-
Repeat to:- Hong Kong Washington
UKDEL Brussels UKMIS Geneva
Saving to:-
Distribution:- international Trade
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Copies to:- Clt. Remmis Eegy. out. Kemanis
Addressed to
telegram No........
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PRIORITY
(date) 11 December
repeated for information/ta Hong Kong, and ROUTING LO
Washington, URDEL Brussels, HAMIS Geneva.
Saving to....
Your telegram No. 849 and Britten's; letter to Jake-
of 9 December.
339/2/1
Generalised Preferences and long itong
It was agrera as our recent diegia$10
Governor and senior liong Kong officiais bhat ¿
to the outcome of preliminary soundinge at the o
Trade Committee Meeting, a formula ohould be
the Japanese soon with the object of forsatu..ding has
finalising and/or puolishing of a Japanese desicion &
exclude fiong kong. komarks made by the Japansõe
delegate at the Trade Committes confirmed that for
constitutional reasons Japan may prove to be the firek
donor to initiate the necessary legislation proceNS
and that little time may be left before her List of
beneficiaries is finalised. While further exclusionn
(on grounds of burden-sharing) could well be jongli le
at a later stage we cannot see the Japanese mrkinn
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