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Asian countries.
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I recognise that some of these
products are also important to countries negotiating
for association under Protocol 22. But the Community
should agree to apply GSP concessions on these products
as soon as the trade provisions of the new Convention
of Association come into force.
Tobacco
6. The United Kingdom needs a much bigger quota for
1975 than the 22,000 tons that has been proposed. We
need a larger quota primarily for tobaccos from the
Indian sub-continent. We want a quota for ourselves
of 28,000 tons. This is the quantity of tobacco we
expect to import from the JDI countries next year.
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'Sensitive Products and super competitive countries.
7. We are prepared to accept the proposal to reduce
the items on the sensitive list from 53 to around 13
products but unhappy about the proposal that there should be special "butoirs for the so-called super
competitive countries. This will hit Hong Kong in
particular and will represent yet another element of
discrimination against her. There is no guarantee that
the concept will achieve the purpose of making the
scheme more accessible for the less competitive.
the short term such countries will not be able to take
advantage of the scheme and this will mean that quotas
will be under-utilised.
In
[If the general drift is in favour of agreeing the
super competitive proposals]. We can reluctantly agree
but that this will be particularly unwelcome to Hong Kong.
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/Hong Kong