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TELELETTER
CONFIDENTIAL
REF: MRS 091/301/1
TO: PEKING
HKK
15/2
FOR: T J B GEORGE
FROM: A J RAMSAY, MAED/FCO
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UK/CHINA SHIPPING
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2.
Please refer to my two teleletters of 15 March.
At a meeting at the DOT last Thursday the General Council
of British Shipping expressed the firm view that both an
Understanding on reasonable participation in the trade and a
Maritime Agreement to facilitate ship operation were highly
desirable in order to exploit the increase in trade to the
They stressed the need for urgency in order to take
advantage of the favourable climate created by the signing
of the ECA.
full.
3. The GCBS views do not indicate any alteration to our
immediate objective which is to negotiate an Exchange of
Letters under the ECA but we would welcome your advice on
the best tactics to adopt in order to achieve progress on
both fronts. In particular do you think that the Chinese
night use the maritime agreement (which will inevitably take
longer to conclude even if we can get over the HK problem)
to delay what we want on cargo sharing under the ECA.
4. GCBS were pleased to learn that shipping was listed as
one of the sectors for future cooperation under the ECA.
They therefore suggested that they might seek an early
opportunity to send a party of shipowners to talk to the
Chinese at a technical level, nerhans after further discussions
at official level. There have been such discussions in the
mast. We should welcome your views on this proposal.
/cont.
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