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H 香港政府 GIS 新聞處
REOF! EL IN REGISTRY No. 51
28 DEC1973
HKK (13.
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
Tuesday, December 11, 1973
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Speech by His Excellency the Governor,
Sir Murray MacLehose, at the opening of
the 31st Chinese Manufacturers' Association Exhibition. 11.12. 73
Dr. Chuang, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Hight I congratulate you, Dr. Chuang and your Committee, on all
the energy and imagination that has produced this 31st CMA exhibition.
I spoke last year of difficult trading conditions, currency
uncertainties, increasing restraints on our textile exports and the concern
over our trading position when Britain joined the European Economic Community.
All these problems are still very much with us.
But, in recent months, other problems have arisen or have become
more acute. I refer in particular to the acceleration of world inflation,
of which we in Hong Kong have certainly had to bear our share. There is
also the shortage of certain industrial raw materials which has presented
acute difficulties for some of our industries, particularly plastics.
Finally there is the restriction of oil exports from the Middle East. All
these have presented or are presenting problems for Hong Kong.
Our traditional trading problem is discrimination against our
exports. This can take a number of forms unwarranted restraints on our
textile exports, discrimination against us and in favour of our close
competitors in generalised preference schemes, or direct quantitative
restrictions against our exports. Whatever form such discrimination may take,
you
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