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Wednesday, November 14, 1973
In addition, Hong Kong manufacturers would now have to pay, as
a result of recent changes and shortages in materials supply, 15 to 30 per
cent more for plastice, steel and other materials than their counterparts
in other producing countries.
However, despite these and other difficulties, he said there
was still plenty of opportunities for selling to these countries.
But he stressed that the products would have to be of high
quality and sophisticated design, made only possible with advance technology
and a much broader based industry support involving a higher extent of
manufacturing and perhaps even the secondary processing of primary
materials to feed the industrial needs.
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