WOK
alw all the no merit in excluding any of them if Hong Kong is excluded explially by the USA or Japan (but if the USA were to exclude all of
dependent territories we would be justified in excluding her's).
Portugal has not yet made any claim on behalf of her dependencies,
Angola, Mozambique and Macao (which benefit under the Australian
preferences scheme introduced in 1966). If she does, we shall
be presented with a political problem in UMORAD since the Commonwealth,
and all the African countries, would strongly oppose their inclusion.
The Group of 77
15. 25 Members of the Group are Commonwealth countries and will
benefit from the EEC and most other donors' schemes. Those granting
reverse preferences to the UK or BBC and unwilling to undertake to
abolish them will be excluded from the US scheme, if insistence on
this undertaking is maintained. Another 23 members are ascociated
with the DC under the Yaounde Convention or agreements with
Madagascar and the Mahgreb. All these will be included in the BBC
and other schemes although, with one or two exceptions, their
links will exclude them from the US scheme. We must clearly include
them all. Annex D shows that our existing imports of manufactured
goods from thon are just under 223 million most of which is copper
from the Congo 7.
16. There are 45 (?) other members of the Group of 77. Our total
imports of manufactured goods from them are 2103 million, but of
these £59 million comes from Chile consisting mainly of copper in