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Trade Industry and Customs Department
14 December 1977
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HISE BAD
Dear Mr. Murphy,
Please refer to your letter of 20 October 1977 regarding water-gel explosives.
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As requested, I have enclosed copies of the latest brochures which we have been able to obtain on the type of water-gel explosives that ICI's Nobel's Explosives Company Limited and E.I. du Pont de Nemours Inc. are interested in possibly manufacturing in Hong Kong. I do not know if or to what extent either of the companies consider China as a potential market for water-gel explosives if a plant was established in Hong Kong. However, it appears from the papers on this subject that both companies envisage manufacturing water-gel explosives partly for the local market and also for export probably to South East Asia.
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I hope that the brochures contain the necessary information to enable you to let us know soon if water-gel explosives are included under Item No. M.L. 8 of the International CoCom List. In closing may I take this opportunity to wish you and your colleagues in the Trade Relations and Exports Department a Very Happy Christmas.
Yours faithfully,
!
Attalland
(R. Hallard)
for Director of Trade Industry and Customs
Encle.
Mr. J.M. Murphy,
Trade Relations and Exports Department,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
Great George Street,
London SW1A 2AH,
United Kingdom.
RH/gk
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