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From:
JA Sankey Esq CMG UKMIS
37-39 rue de Vermont 1211 Geneva 20
CONFIDENTIAL
Roy Williams, Deputy Secretary
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY 1-19 VICTORIA STREET
LONDON SWIH OET
Telephone (Direct dialling) 01-215) 5317
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(Switchboard) 215 7877
27 February 1986
Dan
GATT : CHINA AND HONG KONG
This is a belated acknowledgement of your letter of 29 January reporting your conversation with Dunkel on this topic. Everything you say confirms our view here that delicate negotiations lie ahead over China and Hong Kong in GATT; but that there is no immediate or early crisis. We agree with your remarks in your final paragraph about lobbying.
As it happens, I saw Sir Edward Youde briefly on 11 February. We did not discuss the subject in much depth, but he said that on the trade/political front Hong Kong's first priority was to get its GATT status settled, and to that end it was being very careful not to antagonise China in any way - eg by getting drawn into premature free trade talks with the US.
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cc Mr Johnson, ITP1, DTI
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Mr Shepherd
Mr Galsworthy )
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Miss Spencer, UKREP Brussels Mr Boyd, Hong Kong
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