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but did have GATT relationship with the 6 members of the
EEC and the 3 other applicant countries. The EEC is
not a member as a single entity.
1. The situation was somewhat different in the CTC
where the UK signed both on its own behalf and sepa-
rately for Hong Kong. Physically, Hong Kong's delegate
sat separately from the UK team. The EEC as a whole
vas a member, and so were its individual member states.
5. Difficulties would arise for Hong Kong in these
two bodies following Britain's adherence to the Treaty
of Rome and subsequent alignment of policy among the
10 members. The problem as seen from Hong Kong fell
into two parts. First, how would the UK accession
affect Hong Kong's legal position under the GATT
vis-à-vis the other 9 EEC members, whilst the latter
remained High_7 Contracting Parties? It was accepted
that a different situation would arise if the member
states of the EEC gave up individual membership of the
GATT and the enlarged community itself became a Con-
tracting Party, but that this long-term and possibly
hypothetical problem, as far as Hong Kong is concerned, could not be considered usefully at this stage7.
Secondly, how Hong Kong in practice could invoke its
GATT relationship with the 9 through the UK who, as a
member of the enlarged EEC, would have agreed to the
general EEC line in any given case?
6. Mr Haddon-Cave said Hong Kong would prefer to ret
tain their non-GATT relationship with the UK but did
not want this non-GATT relationship extended to the EEC.
/He said
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