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Preference Scheme, i.e. full partici-
pation in in the community's offer on
Chapters 1 24; and full participation
offer
in the community's offer on Chapters 24-
99 except for the twenty-two products
above.
The Commission is arguing strongly that
Hong Kong should consider some form of
voluntary control on the twenty-two products.
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If
It may be worth putting to Hong Kong officials
this argument, which goes as follows.
Hong Kong were prepared to offer voluntary
control, then this would go a long way to
disarm the opposition of the Director
General for Industry which is complaining
that the adcition of twenty-two new tariff
quotas to the Commuity Scheme would make it
administratively very difficult to handle.
The other savantage of voluntary control
is that it would greatly improve the chances
in of getting the Americans to exclude Hong
Kong. The Community would be able to say
that they were including ong Kong in their
scheme subject only to the exclusion of
textiles and shoes (excluded by the Americans
themselves). If however the Community had
to say that Hong Kong's inclusion also
involved tariff quotas on a whole list of
sensitive products, the Americans, having no
tarife quotes arrangements, would be able to
/exclude
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