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14.
first 8 months of 1969 compared with the same period
last year;
apparel iuports on the other hand had
declined by less than 2%. In response to a question
from Mr. Stewart, Mr. Nehmer confirmed that the figures
* Mr. Jordan's related to knit and not woven wool products.*
notes show
that he said knit and
29.
Mr. Nehmer noted that the II.K. Government
woven.
did not feel that imports from Hong Kong were causing
injury to U.S. producers.
in the view of the U.S.
Government total imports were, and since Hong Kong
was making a substantial contribution to total imports,
so it was making a substantial contribution to the
injury.
Furthermore if the Hong Kong Government did not
think that the very high share of mports held by
Hong Kong was sufficient to cause injury, could the
H.K. Government representatives say what figure they
thought should be reached before injury was caused.
30.
Dir Lugene Melville rminded hr. Nehmer that
at the moment the U.S. Government representatives were,
as he understood the position, up-dating and commenting
on the H.K. Government's Note, paragraph by paragraph
and answering queries thereon from the representatives
of the U.K. and H.K. Governments.
These representatives
would respond in due course when Mr. Nehmor and his
colleagues had completed their presentation.
31.
Mr. Blackman pointed out that in the first
seven months of 1969, imports of man made fibre knit
/apparel
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