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Yr telno 89 to ilong Kong: Generalised Preference.
You will by now have received CECD sevingras 28/11
eder 88, 90 and 91, recording lack of significnat pro- gress on the question of beneficiarice. However, Cronk is now aware of the kind of arrengewent 200 Hong Kong we hope to obue in from the LLC.
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Subject to Hong Kong'e comments, ve t crefore suggest that you urge the Administration to include Hong Kong in their preference schene on the enme basis as the BC. You may say that we have good hopes for a favourable decision from the corvuni Sy before long, and that it would therefore be appro- priate for the USA to wait the FBC proposals before reaching any decision on Hong Kong. We Trust that the US decision will in any case be conditionall: positive, though dropping the requirement for any Japanese contribution, which would be insignificant in trade terms: the UK and EEC take nearly eight times more of Hong Kong's exports than does Japa: .
detailed 3. The proposals in Hong Kong telno 762 would thus be better kept very much as & fallback position. You could however day, in order to give an impre: sior of flexibility, that if the US find unacceptable
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