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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1993

AND WITH MR TSANG IS

AS THE SERVICE INDUSTRIES BECOME MORE SOPHISTICATED, THE CONTINUED BOOM IN THE ASIAN-PACIFIC ECONOMIES, CONFIDENT THAT THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPORT THE SERVICES.

CHINESE MARKET HAS PLACED IN MARSHALLING THE AND TECHNOLOGY SKILL

"THE CONTINUOUS OPENING UP OF THE

HONG KONG IN AN UNRIVALLED

RESOURCES IN LABOUR, THROUGHOUT CHINA.

"IN THE

COMMERCIAL AND

POSITION

10

YEARS,

AND SCATTERED

HONG

ENORMOUS

UNTAPPED

OF

KONG'S A SYNERGY I SEE NEXT

CHINA'S NEARLY BOUNDLESS AND CAPABILITY MARKETING

PROFITS HONG KONG OPPORTUNITIES, RESOURCES WHICH WILL GENERATE FOR

FAR EXCEED AND PROSPERITY IN THE EXPORT OF SERVICES, AT LEVELS WHICH THOSE THAT EXIST IN THE TRADE IN GOODS.

"WHAT IS NEEDED IS VISION, COURAGE NEVER IN SHORT SUPPLY IN HONG KONG,

H

CREATE

AND ENTERPRISE MR TSANG SAID.

WHICH ARE

SERVICES

AND OTHER

AND SUSTAIN A FREE TRADE

HE BELIEVED URUGUAY ROUND NEGOTIATIONS ON REGIONAL INITIATIVES COULD ENVIRONMENT CONDUCIVE TO THE EXPORTS OF OUR SERVICES.

A DAUNTING TASK OF

THE

MULTILATERAL CREATE

ROUND

OF (UR) URUGUAY

IS TO

A THE AUSPICES OF GATT TRADE TALKS LAUNCHED UNDER

AND DISCIPLINES TO GOVERN COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK OF GENERAL RULES INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN THESE HIGHLY DIVERSE ACTIVITIES, HE SAID.

THE ULTIMATE

AIM

IS ΤΟ

ACHIEVE

PROGRESSIVE

THROUGH THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATORY MEASURES AND OPENING COMMITMENTS, HE EXPLAINED.

HONG KONG PARTICIPATES ACTIVELY IN

THE SERVICES

BEING CURRENTLY HELD IN GENEVA.

LIBERALISATION

ACTIVE MARKET

NEGOTIATIONS

RELY ON POLITICAL A FROM

STRONG MULTILATERAL

OR

"AS A FREE TRADE ENTITY WHICH DOES NOT

ΤΟ GAIN MUCH MILITARY CLOUT, WE HAVE REGIME FOR TRADE IN SERVICES.

THE "OUR GOALS IN THE SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS ARE TO ENSURE THAT

MARKET ACCESS RULES DEVISED ARE SOUND AND PRACTICAL AND TO DISMANTLE

** MR TSANG ADDED. PROBLEMS OUR BUSINESSES ARE FACING OVERSEAS,

HE PAID SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THE HONG KONG COALITION INDUSTRIES FOR THEIR INPUT IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS.

OF

SERVICE

AFTER YEARS OF INTENSIVE DISCUSSIONS, THE MAIN PROVISIONS OF DRAFT GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TRADE IN SERVICES HAVE BEEN SET.

THE MAIN OBLIGATIONS

MOST-FAVOURED

A

ARE

THIS AGREEMENT

THAT MEANING

A MEMBER ON INFORMATION

MEASURES

FROM DERIVED TRANSPARENCY, MEMBERS

AND

AND TREATMENT

BETWEEN DISCRIMINATE AFFECTING TRADE IN SERVICES SHOULD BE MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE.

CANNOT

TREATMENT OF

OTHER PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS PROVIDE FOR THE EQUAL FOREIGN AND LOCAL SERVICE PROVIDERS AND MARKET ACCESS RULES.

"IF IMPLEMENTED

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