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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1990
"WE NEED IN THIS AREA AN
INJECTION OF
UNEQUIVOCAL POLITICAL TO GET OVER THE PRESENT WILL FROM THE MAJOR PARTICIPANTS IN ORDER
TO THE STATEMENT
MEETING WHICH WAS IMPASSE," MR CHAU SAID IN HIS
AND SOME 105 COUNTRIES SENIOR
FROM OFFICIALS ATTENDED BY
MULTILATERAL TRADE TERRITORIES PARTICIPATING IN THE URUGUAY ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS.
ARE THE TALKS, WHICH STARTED IN URUGUAY ALMOST FOUR YEARS AGO,
THE TEXTILES AND CLOTHING SCHEDULED FOR COMPLETION THIS DECEMBER. SECTOR IS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT COVERED BY THE NEGOTIATIONS.
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A BASIC PROBLEM IN THE TEXTILES NEGOTIATIONS IS THE FAILURE
RESTRICTIONS DATE TO AGREE ON THE MODALITY FOR THE PHASING OUT OF MEA AND INTEGRATION OF THE SECTOR INTO THE GATT.
INSISTENCE UPON GLOBAL
QUOTAS
BY THE
U.S. AND CANADA HAS
BROUGHT THE NEGOTIATIONS TO A VIRTUAL STANDSTILL, MR CHAU SAID.
PARTICULAR CONCERN ΤΟ HONG ON ANTI-DUMPING, ANOTHER AREA OF
OF A TEXT PRODUCED BY THE KONG, HONG KONG HAS REJECTED THE DRAFT CHAIRMAN OF THE ANTI-DUMPING GROUP AS A BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS.
EXTENSION
OF ANTI-DUMPING
PARTIALLY
INTO NEW
OF
REFLECTED
"THE DRAFT ENVISAGES AN AREAS, WHILE PROPOSALS TO INTRODUCE GREATER DISCIPLINES ON THE USE
AT BEST ONLY BEEN ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES HAVE IN THE PAPER, MR CHAU SAID.
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SAFEGUARDS IMPORTS) BASED ON THE
CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE IT HONG KONG ALSO TOLD THE MEETING OF THE ATTACHED TO THE CONCLUSION OF A COMPREHENSIVE AGREEMENT ON (1.E. EMERGENCY ACTION TO RESTRICT INJURIOUS MOST FAVOURED NATION PRINCIPLE.
SENSE OF AGREEMENT, WHICH IS AS SECTORS SUCH SENSITIVE
GATT FRAMEWORK," MR CHAU
WE
"HONG KONG IS ENCOURAGED TO NOTE THAT THE OVERRIDING THE NEGOTIATIONS IS FOR A SOLIDLY NON-SELECTIVE
BRING ARE TO IMPORTANT GIVEN THAT AGRICULTURE AND TEXTILES INTO THE GENERAL
SAID.
MR SPEAKING AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE FOUR-DAY MEETING,
ON THE OBSTACLES IN DISCUSSION SUBSTANTIVE SAID THE LACK OF VARIOUS NEGOTIATING AREAS WAS RATHER DISAPPOINTING.
CHAU THE
AGREEMENT REACHED ON THE OTHER HAND, HE WAS ENCOURAGED BY THE
THE RUN-UP ON A WORK PROGRAMME AND TIMETABLE FOR THE NEGOTIATIONS IN
HE REMAINED REASONABLY OPTIMISTIC TO THEIR CONCLUSION IN DECEMBER. THAT THEY WOULD CONCLUDE ON TIME.
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