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Thailand and Yugoslavia, all
serious competitors of Hong Kong, have
become beneficiaries under the Community's
GSP for cotton textiles. We ca no
longer tolerate such discrimination
against one of our dependent territories;
This is a subject to which the Hong
Kong Authorities who are under great
pressure from their own textile trade, attach/considerable importance.
Member
states will recall that just before the
summer break a team of Hong Kong of ficials
visited the Commission and other member
states setting out their case on textiles.
They noted in particular that Hong Kong's
textile and footwear exports to the EEC
have fallen markedly since 1971 and that
the downward trend is continuing. The
discrimination has led buyers increasingly
to divert their orders away from Hong Kong
to suppliers in countries which are
beneficiaries under the scheme;
I hope that the Commission will reconsider
this question and, in addition to their
proposals on Hong Kong footwear, also
propose the inclusion of some categories
at least of Hong Kong's textiles for the
1975 scheme, with a view to all Hong Kong's
textile exports being covered by the
scheme as early as possible. I further hope
++ this matter will receive synthetic treatment from
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