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In Confidence
DRAFT
letter
To:-
The Chancellor of the
Exchequer
Type 1 +
From
Secretary of State
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
C.C.
Minister for
Trade
IMPORT OF COTTON TEXTILES TRANSITION FROM QUOTAS
TO TARIFFS ON 1 JANUARY 1972
کا سوال
While I understand the difficulties to which you
referred in your reply of 20 April to Michael Noble's
абе letter of 5 April, I think I should delineate some
you
further aspects of the effect of not giving duty
relief to developing countries in the Commonwealth
Preference Area, and particularly Hong Kong.
As you know India, Pakistan and Hong Kong have
always maintained that they were given hardly any time
in which to consider the implications of our change
policy
s before the change itself was anounced in
un neirome Parliament. Your decision will therefore be ungep
Furthermore it inst wome
with them.
at a time when we are about to have talks
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with the Indians, to try to obtain a waiver from the
whist
middle
of
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Trade Agreement, and we are in the midst of difficult
negotiations with the Hong Kong Government on the size
of their defence contribution for the next five years.
In these latter talks, with the agreement of the
Treasury and the Ministry of Defence, we are seeking
£8.5 m a year from Hong Kong over a period of five
years as a reasonable contribution towards the costs
British
of maintaining armed forces in the Colony. The
Governor considers tha. one of the main reasons for the
So far in the negotiation
lack of progress/has been the resentment which has accumulated over a period of years over actions by
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