DSR 11 (Revised)
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20 APR 1965
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A J Lane, Esq, International Trade
Policy Division, Department of
Trade and Industry, 1 Victoria
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Street, London, Swl
CHINA AND THE GATT
Same suggested adortare ii pana 6.
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Miss Wilmshurst
Legal Adorses (second sentence of para 3)
Mr houghead
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(by mufax) for comments
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Spice to Mr. wanan re amendments. The read
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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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