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TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1988

MOVED TO

THIS, MR MACLEOD STRESSED, DID NOT CEASED ΤΟ BE A MANUFACTURING/EXPORTING

MARKETING, CHINA, PROCESSES HAD REMAINED IN HONG KONG.

MEAN THAT

CENTRE.

HONG KONG HAD

WHILE

DESIGN

AND

SIMPLER MANAGEMENT

IN HONG KONG: MR MACLEOD LISTED THE ATTRACTIONS OF INVESTING

LACK GOOD COMMUNICATIONS, LOW TAX, STABLE AND PREDICTABLE GOVERNMENT, OF RED TAPE, TARIFFS AND 50 ON AND A HARD WORKING LABOUR FORCE.

HE SAID THE BEST PROSPECTS FOR INVESTMENT

ELECTRONICS, INDUSTRY.

METAL AND

HEAVY

ENGINEERING

TRADE

COULD BE FOUND IN AND IN THE ELECTRICAL

HE WAS SURE THAT BELGIUM, AS A LEADING MANUFACTURER AND TRADER, AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN COULD GREATLY BENEFIT FROM HONG KONG.

HOPED THAT THOSE WHO PRESSURE. TOUCHING RE STRESSED THAT

MR MACLEOD SAID HE FUTURE ON THE BELIEVED IN FREE TRADE COULD RESIST PROTECTIONIST ON HONG KONG'S BROADER ROLE IN TRADE AND ECONOMICS, HONG KONG WAS A GOOD MARKET IN ITS OWN RIGHT.

HONG KONG, HE POINTED OUT, COULD BOAST A HE HOPED THAT THOSE PRESENT WOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE MANUFACTURER, EXPORTER OR INVESTOR.

BUOYANT ECONOMY AND OF IT, WHETHER AS

AND DIPLOMATS,

MORE THAN 60 SENIOR INDUSTRIALISTS, FROM THE BELGIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION MEETING.

OFFICIALS

ATTENDED THE

RECEPTION WITH THE

BEFORE THE MEETING, MR MACLEOD ATTENDED A BELGIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE, MR ROBERT URBAIN.

WHO SERVED TRADE UNTIL MAY

ALSO PRESENT AT THE MEETING WAS MR HERMAN DE CROO, AS BELGIUM'S MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND FOREIGN OF THIS YEAR.

ALL

PATRONS OF THE PROMOTES BUSINESS

MR MACLEOD, MR URBAIN AND MR DE CROO ARE BELGIUM-HONG KONG SOCIETY, AN ASSOCIATION FORMED TO AND TRADING LINKS BETWEEN BOTH PLACES.

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