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Indo China, might I think reasonably urge, in such case, that although the Argentine bounty had been neutralized by the Hong Kong countervailing duty vet that she (Indo China) is not under any obligation to give Convention advantages to a country or colony which does not formally adhere to the Convention but reserves to itself freedom to conform or not to conventional restraints in other respects as and when it may suit her interests to do so.
4. If Argentine sugar were imported into France charged with the proper countervailing duty refined and re-exported to England, I hold that we should be bound to admit it, because both France and England are Convention countries and bound by the Convention.
In the case of Indo China and Hong Kong Indo China is not bound by the Convention to a non-Convention country or colony like Hong Kong and conversely Hong Kong is not bound to Indo China. Therefore the conditions as between France and England are quite different from the conditions between Indo China and Hong Kong.
If however I am wrong in my premise and Great Britain has adhered to the Convention on behalf of the Crown colonies, then I agree with you and Bergne as to 1 and 2 and with Bergne as to 3 and 4.
Yours etc
(Sd) P.J. PITTAR