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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1990

WERE WE

REACHING

THE

A

BUT NEW

HAS ACCOMPLISHED COMMUNITY,

"WE HAVE BEEN AWARE FOR SOME TIME THAT

YEARS END OF AN ERA. THE COUNCIL IN THE PAST 10

WORK FOR THE TRADING WORTHWHILE PROGRAMME OF FACTORS WILL DETERMINE THE PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT THE COUNCIL, WITH ITS LIMITED RESOURCES, MAY NOT BE THE TO COPE WITH THESE FACTORS," MR GARLICK SAID.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONIC

FOR THE NINETIES. BEST VEHICLE

WHICH (EDI), A CASE IN POINT. "WE

DATA INTERCHANGE

THE TFC CHAMPIONED IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES WAS ACTED AS AN EDUCATIVE FORCE TO BRING EDI TO THE NOTICE OF THE TRADING PIONEERING WORK COMMUNITY. SPECIFICALLY, WE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WHICH EVENTUALLY LED TO THE SETTING-UP OF THE HE SAID.

TRADELINK CONSORTIUM,"

"TODAY HOWEVER PROJECTS SUCH AS SPEDI, WHICH IS THE SHARED

AND TRADELINK, JOINTLY

GOVERNMENT BY

DOES TFC THE UNDERTAKINGS.

EDI

ARE

NOT

HAVE

THE

PROJECT UNDERTAKEN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR RESOURCES TO OPERATE ON THIS SCALE.

WHO

KONG'S

"MR

TRADE BEEN HONG HAS MR IAN TOMLIN

OF THE FACILITATION" FOR THE PAST QUARTER-CENTURY, FIRST AS CHAIRMAN

AS THE CHAIRMAN WORKING PARTY FOR SIMPLER TRADE DOCUMENTS, AND THEN OF THE TRADE FACILITATION COMMITTEE, BEFORE BECOMING CHAIRMAN COUNCIL - STEPPED DOWN EARLIER THIS YEAR, BUT CONTINUES

DOCUMENTS CHAIRMAN

THE COUNCIL'S OF WINDING-UP THE COMMITTEE'S PROGRAMME OF WORK.

SUB-COMMITTEE

OF THE

TEM

IN

AS PRO ΤΟ ASSIST

JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT PROVIDING AN ANNUAL PAYING COMPANIES

THE COUNCIL WAS ORIGINALLY FUNDED AS A GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR, WITH THE

PRIVATE SECTOR AND SUBVENTION ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION FEES RELATED TO SIZE OF COMPANY.

AS EARLY AS

MID-EIGHTIES THE

THAT THE MEANINGFUL LEVEL

IT BECAME APPARENT GROWING LEVEL OF EXPENDITURE NECESSARY TO SUSTAIN A OF TRADE FACILITATION WORK COULD NOT BE FUNDED BY THESE MEANS.

A

GOVERNMENT PROVIDED FEES, AND THE GENERAL THE PROVISION OF GARLICK AS

IN 1986, A NEW APPROACH WAS INITIATED, ONCE-OFF GRANT TO SUPPLEMENT PRIVATE SECTOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GAVE SUPPORT TO THE COUNCIL IN

HARRY MR SECONDED SERVICES, AND OFFICE PREMISES PART-TIME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.

AND

A TRADE DIFFICULT

HAS SUPPORTED UA EXTREMELY "FOR 10 YEARS THE PRIVATE SECTOR

CORPORATE MEMBER, FOR A $10,000 WELL, WITH ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION AT

ABOVE THE

KONG NORM FOR HONG WHICH EVEN TODAY IS WELL

MADE IT ASSOCIATION. EVEN SO, CONTINUAL INFLATION HAS PROVIDE A TRULY PRO-ACTIVE, AS OPPOSED TO MERELY RE-ACTIVE, MR GARLICK SAID.

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SERVICE,

THE COUNCIL HAS ALSO BEEN PLAGUED IN RECENT YEARS BY THE

THE HAND DRAIN AND HIGH STAFF TURNOVER. "ON THE ONE

SPECIALIST TFC'S

WORK REQUIRES

SMALL A

CORE OF

DEMANDED

PROFESSIONALS. ON THE OTHER HAND, A SMALL FUNDS CANNOT OFFER THE CAREER PROSPECTS YOUNG EXECUTIVES."

BRAIN

NATURE OF THE DEDICATED LIMITED BRIGHT

WITH ORGANISATION

TODAY'S

BY

/FOR THE