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success.
Similarly,
disappointment
suppliers.
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13
both CLP and
MTR sources
express
about the quality of service received from UK
Future Prospects
31.
The
importance of the UK
economic
relationship
cannot be evaluated solely in terms of past performance.
business prospects which the relationship can be
The future
expected to generate have also to be examined.
32.
Hong Kong ought to prove an increasingly attractive
business location for UK companies because:-
(a) The Sino-British
Joint Declaration (JD)
guarantees that Hong Kong's existing legal,
professional,
commercial and educational
systems will continue to operate as at
present until at least the year 2047.
Thus,
the indirect advantages created by the
historical relations with the UK (see paras
25-29 above) are not
threatened by the
transfer of sovereignty in 1997;
(b) The
JD
also
continue
guarantees that Hong Kong will
to be an attractive and profitable
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