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TO PRIORITY FCO TEL 110 838 OF 26 JULY INFO PRIORITY GOVERMER HONG KONG, BRUSSELS (FOR DODGE), UKREP BRUSSELS, DUBLIN AND HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON AND INFO SAVING ROME, THE HAGUE, RONI,
UKMTS GENEVA AND COPENHAGEN,
BRAITHWAITE'S LETTER TO BONN OF 25 JUNE: HONG KONG AND COMMUNITY GSP,
1. DISCUSSIONS WITH NLLE GUYOT OF THE DIRECTION DES RELATIONS
ECOMORIQUES EXTERIEURES TOOK PLACE ON 25 JULY, DODGE AND TOAQ WERE ACCOMPANIED BY MY COUNSELLOR (AGRICULTURE AND ECONOMIC). DESPITE THE
MITIALLY CAUTIOUS REACTION OF THE FRENCH (MY TEL NO 903 TO BRUSSELS) THE MEETING ITSELF WENT RATHER WELL. DODGE AND TSAO VERE PLEASED
WITH THE CORDIALITY OF THEIR RECEPTION AND MLLE GUYOT SHOWED AN
IMPRESSIVE MASTERY OF THE SUBJECT. IT WAS CERTAINLY HELPFUL THAT TSAO COULD ATTEND, DESPITE THE FACT THAT MUCH OF THE DISCUSSION HAD TO
TAKE PLACE 14 FRENCH,
2. MLLE GUYOT AT FIRST SEEMED DISPOSED TO STAND PAT ON THE LINE THAT,
SINCE FOOTWEAR AND TEXTILES HAD BEEN EXCLUDED BY AGREEMENT IN THE BRITISH ACCESSION NEGOTIATIONS, THERE WAS LITTLE FURTHER TO BE SAID ON THE SUBJECT, BUT AS THE DISCUSSION DEVELOPED, AND PARTICULARY IN THE LIGHT OF OUR ARGUEMENTS ABOUT THE TRADE DIVERSION WHICH IS TAKING
PLACE SHE SHOVED SICHS OF RATHER GREATER FLEXIBILITY,
3. SHE WAS HITERESTED 14 THE REACTIONS WHICH DODGE AND TSAO HAD HAD TO THEIR PRESENTATIONS IN OTHER COMMUNITY CAPITALS AND SEEMED PREPARED TO ENVISAGE THAT THAT SOMETHING MIGHT BE DONE FOR HONG KONG
N THE FOOTWEAR SECTOR FOR 1975. BUT SHE STRESSED THAT THE TEXTILES SECTOR WAS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT. GIVEN THAT THERE WERE AS YET
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