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initially, and probably more later. But this is business. Au would almost certainly take a back hander; the municipal government could not fail to make money on the volumes involved; Jardines would take a legitimate commission and Smith Bros, in the recession hit Midlands, would get valuable export orders. If the order comes through it will be useful to Britain.
7.
Car wash systems to communist Canton; a contender for the unlikeliest export of the year?
20 January 1992
mano prham
Richard Graham
сс Commercial Section, Peking
OT2/2D, DTI
Andrew Seaton Esq, FED, FCO
RG/sd
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