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great importance to the MFA and want to avoid undermining it, but
that we expect to be pressing Hong Kong strongly to reduce
significantly their sales to us of shirts in 1976.
would be on a bilateral basis, not via the Commission.
This pressure
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go on to point out that that statement should be reassuring to Hong Kong, as clearly limiting the area of action, and emphasising
our desire to resolve a difficulty, of which their negotiators were
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clearly warned, by mutual agreement, not by the imposition of
restraints.
I am copying this to recipients of Bill Rodgers' minute.
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY
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EG V
8 December 1975
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