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must formally take the shape of a recommendation to the
Japanese Parliament)?
(c) How many categories of goods will the Japanese
exclude from the scheme in respect of Hong Kong? The more
they exclude, the less the value of including Hong Kong
at all.
4.
If the Japanese answers were satisfactory on these three
points, I suggest that the Secretary of State should then say
that he would want to consult some of his colleagues and the
Governor of Hong Kong, but that it seemed to him that a very
great advance had been made, for which he was grateful to
Mr Aichi.
5.
As regards other countries'
dependencies benefitting
under our scheme, the position is that it is certainly our
present intention that they should do so. But if dependencies
were being excluded from other countries' schemes
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in particular
if Japan excluded Hong Kong - we might have to reconsider the
position.
10 June 1971
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Mr Wilford
Mr Morgan Mr Laird Mr Burns
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