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Sir Lawrence Kadoorie ?
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/1978
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DEPARTMENT OF
Industry
Thank you for your letter date 26 May which took a little
time to reach me.
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I am glad that you found the Chinese receptive to your
suggestion of counter-trade.
If we are to develop our
trading relations with China, imagination and
entrepreneurial flair will be essential.
We appre toate
the initiative you have taken which co dop provide the basis for a major new impetys
to commnasio ketinien The two countries! 3. My officials have been getting on with proposals for counter-trade arrangements based on Chinese sales of
coal and other raw materials. The integration of such
proposals into the complex of simultaneous commercial
negotiations betwen Chinese, British and Hong Kong
organisations calls for careful co-ordination.
officials will be consulting you shortly about the
prposals we intend presenting to the Chinese.
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