and to un UK textile
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intended to pross rusolutely for Hang'lang's textiles end feetwear to be included in the Curoposa Bconomic Community' gonorul system of preferences from 1975 onwards, tho Government promised today.
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A Foreign and Commonwealth Office mlalter Mr Anthony Raylo, in giving this pledge, informed Parliament the British Government bad elfreedy given notice to Com- mea Market member stutos of its intention.
Me recalled that in the negotiations leading to Britain's
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entry into the community 1
January it was agreed to admit Hongkong to the proforoncos scheme subject to the oxclusion of the colony's textiles and footwour oxports.
Wo errangements agreed by our partners in 1971 may have seemed to them not ungenerous“, Mr Roylo said in a written roply.
"But an important considera- tion now was that cinco 1971 the situation had chengod to tho dotri- mont of Hongkong and that the
Philippines, Thailand and
thom scrisus Yugoslavia, all of competitors of Hongkong, hed become bonoficiarios under the community's schemo in respect of catton toxtiles."
Mr Roylə said the Government had concluded that Win prosent circumstances it was no longer acceptable for discrimination" to upply against Hongkong."
Curopean Altairs Minister John Davies had made a strong stato- ment on the position to tha com- munity's Council of Ministers fact Tuesday.