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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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