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unwilling to allow Britain to import unlimited
quantities of low-cost cloth for processing and freel
circulation within the enlarged Community.
Hong Kong therefore foresees the danger that its
trade with the UK in cotton textiles will eventually
have to surmount not only the tariff (to be imposed
on 1 January, 1972) but also quantitative
restrictions (upon our entry into the E.E.C.)
In negotiating the terms of our entry we shall have
to bear very much in mind our extensive textile
trade with Hong Kong and other developing
Commonwealth countries and its importance to the
economies of those countries.
Commodities Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
November 1970.
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