CODE 18 - 77
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HONG KONG AND THE MFA
1.
John Stern of EID (E) telephoned this morning to say that he had received word from Brussels that the proposed cuts to be imposed by the Community on Hong Kong have been reduced. On knitted shirts from 11% to 7%, on pullovers from 14% to 6.7% and on shirts from 7.5% to 6.2%
2.
Stern's initial reaction is that these reductions mean that the Hong Kong quota as it will appear in the mandate will be on average 6-7% below 1976 sendings and about the same as the estimated final sendings for 1977.
5 October 1977
Champion
J Thompson
K 245
Hong Kong & General Dept
HKK 121/lib,
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