MDA Clinton Esq CMG GM
Deputy Colonial Secretary HONG YOU
Hong Kong De artment
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FOREIGN AND COMMON SALTH OFFICE
LONDON SW1
24 March 1972
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OUTOR NDING ISSUES
1. Thank you for your letter of 6 March.
I confirm that
we shall be keeping a close watch on all these subjects.
I hope that many of them will have been resolved within less than three months. In any case I have made a note to let you have a round-up in early June.
2. There was, incidentally, one point in your letter which we were not entirely clear about. Paragraph 2(c)(11), under
referred to the heading of "Generalised Freference Scheme"
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application of the UK definition of 'developing country' to Hong Kong" In the context of the GPS, as you know, Ilong Kong already has developing country status as a beneficiary of our scheme, Perhaps you could let me know in a little more detail what you had in mind.
E O Laird