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TO ROUTINE FCO TELNO 186 OF 15 FEBRUARY INFO HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON (FGO PLEASE PAGO) BRUSSELS (FOR DUDGE) UKHIS GENEVA (FOR PEARSON) UKREP BRUSSELS BONN COPENHAGEN DUBLIN THE HAGUE LUXEMBOURG PARIS ROME,
UKREP BRUSSELS TELEGRAM 570 TO YOU: NON-COTTON TEXTILES,
THE FOLLOWING POINTS - IN ADDITION TO THOSE IN MY TELNO 153 TO YOU MAY BE USEFUL IN DEFENCE OR EXPLANATION OF OUR UNILATERAL
RESTRAINT ON EXPORTS TO GERMANY,
ITEMS SELECTED FOR RESTRAINT,
FOR LACK OF RELEVANT STATISTICS, WE WERE UNABLE TO ESTABLISH IN WHAT SECTORS (IF ANY) THERE WAS GENUINE MARKET DISRUPTION CAUSED BY IMPORTS FROM HONG KONG, WE CHOSE THEREFORE THOSE ITENS WHERE OUR OWN EXPORT FIGURES SHOWED SUCH SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES THAT IT GEEMED THAT THESE WERE THE ITEMS MOST LIKELY TO BE CAUSING DISRUPTION. WE ALSO TOOK ACCOUNT OF THE FIGURES GIVEN BY FRIEDRICHS IN DECEMBER (PARA 4 OF BRUSSELS TELEGRAM 82 OF 1978 TO ME). SINCE BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS WERE NOT POSSIBLE THIS WAS THE BEST WE COULD
DO.
ON THE OTHER HAND, THE COVERAGE OF OUR POLYESTER/COTTON ARRANGEMENT WITH YOU WAS THE PRODUCT DE BILATERAL NEGOTIATION IN WHICH YOU DEMONSTRATED AN ACTUAL THREAT OF TAJURY TO BRITISH
INDUSTRY.
WE SHOULD LIKE TO BE GIVEN CREDIT FOR DELIBERATELY INCLUDING PANTS AND BOYS' TROUSERS, ALTHOUGH 1972 EXPORTS HERE & PER