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CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AL
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DM March Esq OBE
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Senior British Trade Commissioner,
British Trade Commission HONG KONG
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Our reference 30/103/1
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ASSESSMENT OF HONG KONG AS
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1. I have had a word with Bird who says that there was no paper as such, with this title, but that as a result of a paper on Hong Kong prepared in Whitehall, ECGD was able to make recomme
to the Export Guarantees Committee which were accented and me I am told that t that ECGD can cover the risks in prospect. papers were copied to you at the time. Your current visitors ECGD will have brought you up-to-date. I hone that your rind be at rest on this now.
2.
The Whitehall paper mentioned love was dated 20 Autant n copy was sent to the LIC.
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3. ECGD are now looking seriously at future tracin
aclore and the action they will need to take.
"y of Cotterill's letter of 25 October which will show youd Recve what they have in mind. We are in agreement with whe is outli
CONFIDENTIAL
CC Hayward
Far Eastern Department
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