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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1989

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CHANGING TRADE PATTERN TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT

KONG'S

ONE OF THE BUT

TRADE WAS THE CHANGING PATTERN OF HONG FACTORS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT NOT ONLY IN RESPECT OF TRADE PROMOTION

AND DEVELOPMENT IN OTHER FIELDS SUCH AS INDUSTRIAL PLANNING, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON PIERS JACOBS, SAID LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

INFRASTRUCTURAL IN THE

BARROW, MR JACOBS REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON MARTIN

NOT HAVE ANY MORE TRADE DID SAID THE EXISTING LEVEL OF RE-EXPORT SPECIFIC IMPLICATIONS FOR HONG KONG'S BASIC TRADE POLICY.

"WE REMAIN

FIRMLY

COMMITTED

門

MULTILATERAL TRADING SYSTEM, HE SAID.

TRADE

ΤΟ FREE

TRADE

MR JACOBS SAID THAT WITH REGARD TO SUPPORTING

ROLE OF OF THE RE-EXPORT

BY EXPANDING THE INDUSTRY BRANCH, THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESTED WITH THE TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, ALTHOUGH FROM THE TRADE AND INDUSTRY BRANCH,

AND

TO

THE

THE DEVELOPMENT

THE TRADE THERE

TRADE AND

PROMOTION

WAS INPUT

"THE BRANCH WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT GENERALLY, AND THIS INCLUDES THE RE-EXPORT TRADE," HE SAID.

OF TRADE

OF RE-EXPORTS

AND ASKED WHETHER THE

THIS DEVELOPMENT

IN HIS QUESTION, MR BARROW NOTED THAT THE VALUE EXCEEDED THAT OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS LAST YEAR, GOVERNMENT HAD CONSIDERED THE FORMULATING LONG TERM TRADE POLICY.

IMPLICATIONS

OF

IN

APPEAL TRIBUNAL MAY GO PUBLIC

THE GOVERNMENT IS CONSIDERING AMENDING THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE

APPEAL THE SO THAT DELIBERATIONS AND

HOLD

TRIBUNAL MAY INQUIRIES

ITS THE ORDER

PUBLICATION OF IN PUBLIC IF SUCH ACTIONS ARE

WARRANTED.

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WAS INFORMED OF THIS TODAY BY THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, THE HON GRAHAM BARNES.

(WEDNESDAY)

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON CHENG HON-KWAN, MR

DID BARNES SAID THE APPEAL TRIBUNAL UNDER THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE NOW

LIKEWISE NOT PUBLICLY NOT MEET IN PUBLIC AND ITS DELIBERATIONS WERE DISCLOSED AS IT WAS CONVENED TO CONSIDER APPEALS BY PRIVATE PERSONS.

SOME BUT IT RECOGNISED THAT INTEREST TO THE PUBLIC, HE ADDED.

OF ITS DECISIONS

MIGHT

BE OF

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