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(iv) Handkerchiefs
(v)
Hong Kong's 1965 maximum was 86,354 sq. yds.
The
But the level is so low
category was not fully shipped.
that it is difficult to secure orders for such small
quantities.
The Sino-Soviet countries, India and Japan
were the main shippers in 1964 with over 1 million yards.
Developed countries shipped four times as much as Hong
Kong. Hong Kong therefore seeks an improvement in this
level to 200,000 sq. yds., the equivalent of 100,000
dozen handkerchiefs.
New Products
The agreement in principle was that the 1966 level for the
group of new products should be based as far as practicable
on the average annual exrarts from Hong Kong over the years
1962-64. The export figures available are shown on the list
There are unfortunately no licensing figures to
hand as these products have not previously been restrained
and the trade statistics do not identify some of them.
is therefore Hong Kong's suggestion that the best way to
best
attached.
It
proceed is to have regard to the returns of yardage
submitted by shippers in respect of 1965 shipments of the
new products. On this basis the level for 1966 would be
2.3 million square yards.
(vi) with the deletion of the distinction between "Printed
piecegoods" and "other finished piecegoods" a problem
arises over the level for the new category "Poplins
(including yarn-dyed)".
Previously printed poplins were caught within Category 11,
all other printed fabrics which had a sensitive level of
9,042,198 square yards, whilst other poplins were caught in Category 16 Poplins (including yarn-dyed) which had a
sensitive level of 18,605,330 square yards. Hong Kong
proposes to isolate shipments of printed poplins from the . total shipment (in Category 11 in 1965) which were below
/ the sensitive