CO129-517-2 Correspondence on proposed Chinese and Hong Kong agreements over Customs 13-11-1929 - 28-12-1929 — Page 6

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(Lens Coby chef be May to Stephenson)

It is clear that Hong Kong should be

considering not what they will get-

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x with exemption of Goods re-exhorted. This virustor the creationy

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but the idea is

well room

in exchange for

a Customs Agreement

but what

the result will be

be if the

nestrations break down: but it is

meless to

say anything

more to Sir C

e in

any

Clementi at the moment

Case be will not be at the helm much

Conger.

That

Hong Kong should

join

a Cust

Customs

Union with China

paying to the National Gook

National Gook an agreed

percentage of

revenue

raised from a

tariff in fored at the general Chimene

x

vates

is

a

solution so

idcally simple

that

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suffore it must often have

been proposed

and rejected. Yet it