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than the traffic would bear at one time. Without an assurance that
import restrictions will not be imposed on Hong Kong, the wisest course is, as Sir Murray MacLehose suggests, to wait a while. If the Defence Costs Agreement is so valuable to us, it would be a pity to risk rejection by Hong Kong opinion because of bad timing.
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I consequently recommend that we should support
the Governor's view, as necessary, in inter-departmental discussions. We can make it plain that such disagreement as there is, is not over the substance of the agreement. Nor are we seeking to prejudice Cabinet discussions of import controls on Hong Kong (which, however, the Secretary of State, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for Defence and the Secretary of State for Trade will oppose). The only point is one of timing of an announcement of the Defence Costs Agreement where necessarily we have to take probable Hong Kong reactions into account.
9 December 1975
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