JALAKY
CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
FILE
(152
DT I have agreed.
Guter rpa op грато
A J Pryor Esq
International Trade Policy Division
DTI
1-19 Victoria Street LONDON SW1H OET
Telephone 01-
01 233 3722
Your reference
Our reference
HKK 040/24
Date
8 July 1985
9/7.
Zean Arthur,
HONG KONG: GATT
1.
Ник ото/ 24.
RECEIVE!
DE:
INDEX
T
12 JUL 1985
LISTRY
Action Taken
-
Jr
Our you today about
I spoke to
proposal to issue a
formal Instrument of Entrustment to the Governor of
of Hong Kong, delegating authority to him to conduct Hong Kong's external commercial relations.
2.
The
Attorney-General
a
Hong Kong
possesses
has concluded that we should be declaration to
under the GATT,
Article "full
autonomy"
in
the
justified in mak ing XXVI (5)(c), that
conduct
of
its external commercial relations, in view of the de facto autonomy which Hong Kong currently enjoys in this respect, especially if reinforced by an explicit of Entrustment.
3.
I enclose drafts of:
(a) the proposed Instrument of Entrustment;
(b) a complementary and confidential despatch.
I should be grateful for the DTI's concurrence, if possible by close of play on Tuesday 10 July. We need to telegraph the drafts to Hong Kong for comments before submitting them to Ministers here, well in advance of the first meeting of the Joint Liaison Group.
4.
"
The
The Instrument of Entrustment would itself constitute the Governor's credentials and
in powers
fields the relevant
and could, if necessar Y be shown to parties proposing to enter into a trade
agreement with Hong Kong.
accompanying confidential despatch would not be published. Its purpose would be to record
If continuing relationship of the UK and Hong Kong.
you or your Legal Advisers have any queries about the texts, Paul Fifoot,
departmental Legal Adviser, would be
be happy to answer
tne
Our 233 5134.
5.
over
them on
avilable
to
an swer
any ask
someone
You have kindly agreed that a DTI contact will be the telephone between
Us 22-25 July to help technical questions that the Chinese members of the
JLG may the GATT. about Hong Kong and
If this contact is to be
CONFIDENTIAL