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With the Compliments of the Director of Information Services
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16 APR 1974
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STATEMENT ON TRADE DISCUSSIONS
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The Director of Commerce and Industry, Mr. David Jordan, mado Fee
the following statement when he returned to Hong Kong today (Thursday,
April 11) after holding trade discussions in London with British Government
officials:
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"As has already been announced I went to London for the second
of what we hope will become a series of informal meetings with officials
in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the departments of trade
and industry. The purpose of these meetings is to exchange views and
ideas on those trade matters that are of particular concern to Hong Kong.
"The principal subjects we discussed on this occasion were the
DEC's generalised scherie of preferences and the development of policy
on textiles in the Community.
The British officials assured me that we have every reason
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to believe that the British Government stands by the statement made to
the Community's Council of Ministers last November that during 1974 the
British Government will press strongly for the removal of the present
discrimination against Hong Kong's textiles and footwear in the Community's
preferences scheme.
"Although some discussion of the form the scheme should take in
1975 has already been hold, progress on this as on other important Community business will inevitably be delayed as a result of the sudden
and untimely death of President Pompidou.
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