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TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1989

"SINCE 1970, OUR DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO THE ASEAN RISEN 17 TIMES, TO JAPAN

22

SOUTII

COUNTRIES HAVE

66 TIMES.

KOREA

AND TO TIMES IMPORTS FROM THESE COUNTRIES HAVE SHOWN SIMILAR DRAMATIC GROWTH.

THEY

FURTHER IN "THERE IS EVERY SIGN THAT REGIONAL TRADE WILL GROW

GRASP THE OPPORTUNITIES AS THE YEARS TO COME. HONG KONG MUST MANIFEST THEMSELVES, AND SECURE ITS MARKET SHARE," HE SAID.

ON TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES, HE SAID OUR LARGEST AND BEST MARKE'T.

THE U.S. WAS STILL

RELIANCE ON

"THERE ARE, HOWEVER, WELCOME INDICATIONS THAT OUR THE UNITED STATES AS A MARKET HAS GRADUALLY DECLINED IN RECENT MAINLY AS A RESULT OF OUR EFFORTS IN MARKET DIVERSIFICATION.

YEARS,

THE "NEVERTHELESS, 11ONG KONG'S CLOSE TRADING RELATIONSHIP WITH

A MUTUAL UNITED STATES CONTINUES. THIS RELATIONSHIP IS REINFORCED BY COMMITMENT TO OPEN UP MARKETS AND BY THE CONTINUED INCREASE IN STATES EXPORTS TO HONG KONG, HE SAID.

AS FOR TRADE WITH THE

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

UNITED

(EC). HE SAID IN

TRADING PARTNER,

MARKET FOR

1988, THE EC AS A GROUP REMAINED OUR THIRD LARGEST AFTER CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES, AND OUR SECOND LARGEST DOMESTIC EXPORTS.

OF EC

COMPANIES

ANTI-DUMPING PROCEEDINGS SINCE LATE 1988,

CONCERNED WERE

SPEAKING OF THE SUDDEN SPATE INVOLVING HONG KONG PRODUCTS WHICH HAD TAKEN PLACE

SAID THE GOVERNMENT AND THE SIR PIERS RESPONDING ROBUSTLY.

"WE HAVE ASKED FOR BILATERAL CONSULTATIONS WITH

GATT. THESE CONSULTATIONS

UNDER THE

AUSPICES

OF HE SAID.

TOMORROW IN GENEVA,

THE COMMUNITY WILL COMMENCE

VIEWS ON APPOINTMENT SYSTEM SOUGHT

THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, MR DAVID LAN, TODAY (TUESDAY) CALLED ON THE PUBLIC TO EXPRESS VIEWS ON THE AND APPOINTMENT OF DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS FOR 1991.

ELECTION

WONG TAI ADDRESSING A LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE

SIN DISTRICT BOARD. MR LAN SAID THERE WERE TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT ON THIS ISSUE.

MEMBERS ΤΟ

SCRAPPED

"ONE SCHOOL OF THOUGHT FAVOURED ALL DISTRICT BOARD

APPOINTMENT SYSTEM COULD BE BE ELECTED AND THEREFORE THE AFTER 1991 30 AS TO MAKE DISTRICT BOARDS 100 PER CENT REPRESENTATIVE, HE SAID.

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