DSR 11 (Revised)

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CAVEAT...... mr. wamen.

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20 APR 1965

14 us

A J Lane, Esq, International Trade

Policy Division, Department of

Trade and Industry, 1 Victoria

SUBJECT:

Street, London, Swl

CHINA AND THE GATT

Same suggested adortare ii pana 6.

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M/S PAST HKJWH 3005 медной

Miss Wilmshurst

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Mr houghead

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(by mufax) for comments

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Your Reference

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Spice to Mr. wanan re amendments. The read

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19/4. very pointe in same language what he

1. Thank you for your letter of 27 March on this pathet

subject. I read with much interest the paper that it

enclosed.

2. I think that we are in broad agreement on the central

issue

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that, in economic and GATT terms, there would be

more disadvantages than advantages in Chinese membership

of the Agreement. I do not underestimate these

difficulties - though I wonder whether your analysis is

not a little one-sided: the assertion, for example, that

"China is a huge economy, whose exports are growing

rapidly in sensitive sectors", might be balanced, or at

least qualified, by the argument that China is a huge

market, whose imports of new technology and equipment in

infrastructural fields such as energy, transport,

telecommunications, electronics, defence and agriculture,

as well as in the modernisation of light industry, are

also likely to increase though inevitably constrained

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