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We have now received a detailed breakdown of the quotas for Hong Kong agreed in Brussels last weekend.
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I attach an analysis of the 6 sensitive products (6 because cotton yarn has been ommitted and because cotton and man-made fibre cloth were aggregated by Hong Kong in providing some of the earlier figures I have used). The quota available to Hong Kong for 1978 in the sensitive products is 8% less in value, at 1976 prices, than sendings for 1976. It is however 7% more than the proposals originally laid down by Tran during his visit to Hong Kong earlier this year.
3. We do not have details of Tran's proposals for all the other categories and I have made no attempt to evaluate the effects of the agreement on these categories. They are both of minor importance and largely artificial since, in some cases, they provide quotas which Hong Kong cannot hope to meet.
7 December 1977
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This is not as bad unit might have been. The Times report on the agreement said that the overall result, including the quotas in the other categories, was a
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slight increase on 1476 sendings (compared with an original offer of an 8% decrease). This is presentationally helpful even if, for the reasons given by tho Thompson - para 3 above, it is unrealistic, 2. The thurray may wish to see these figures: they are an improvement on the figures quoted in you round up minute to him on 5 December (which were based on an inaccurate, assessment of what the outcome of the
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