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to suppose that the Hong Kong manufacturers have not aware of the posschrules f
already sounded the Commonwealth market. already gounded
India
herself manufactures rubber footwear in a big way.
(c) B.S.I. standards are already being employed in
Hong Kong in a number of industries. They have not
yet been applied to the rubber footwear industry,
but there is some doubt about the allegation that the
Hong Kong products are inferior to those of the
United Kingdom. A pair of children's rubber boots,
inspected at the Hong Kong Office, was obviously
superior, both in finish and design, to a similar
article which had been produced in the United Kingdom
and exported to Hong Kong.
(a)
We know of no
justification for the suffer
It is not thought that there is any truth in
the suggestion that H.M. Customs are favouring imports
On the contary
In fact, the import
from Hong Kong in any way.
of Hong Kong shirts has been held up very badly
owing to the rigid checking of the Empire content
for Customs purposes. Rather than waive their rules
be understand that
in this respect, the Customs have engaged extra staff
to enable them to speed up the costings of these
Hong Kong imports.
(e)
There is, of course, a trading season for rubber
footwear, so far as the retail trade is concerned.
The extent to which this affects the rate of manufacture
and export from Hong Kong is doubtful, but it is
likely that wholesale orders fall off in the summer
months as the importers become stocked up.
Generally speaking, we deprecate very strongly
these attempts on the part of United Kingdom interests
to hamper Hong Kong's trade. In this particular case
those efforts are short-sighted because Hong Kong's trade
in rubber footwear is by no means one-way; there is a
good deal of canvas used in this
for linings and
industry
uppers, all of which is believed to be imported into
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