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DSR 11C
I am heartened when I look also at our exports to you.
We have no prescriptive right to do well in your
challenging and competitive market. We would not
seek it. We have the benefit of our long standing
relationship with you, and our appreciation of your
legal and financial framework. But in the end our
success will depend on our own efforts on that
competitiveness which I stressed earlier. We offer
an advanced, competent and comprehensive manufacturing
sector, a highly skilled service economy and a
capacity to put together very attractive large scale
packages of goods, technology and finance. We shall
continue to interest ourselves greatly in the development
of your economy, notably the further infrastructure
projects for which we can offer you a good deal.
We realise Hong Kongis more than railways and electrical
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power. So we have an eye also to other areas like your
attractive market for quality consumer goods, building
and construction and electronics. We hope our growing
expertise in the advanced products of information
technology, to which we are paying so much attention,
will be of increasing interest to you.
you We can back up
the efforts of our businessmen with export credit
facilities which bear comparison with any country's
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The scope for growth for trade between Hong Kong and the
UK is there. It is up to both of us to seize the
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