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WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1993

MR

PRESIDENT,

FOR

20

EXAMPLES SOME

THESE ARE JUST

OF EXISTING

MECHANISMS

SERVICE SECTOR FACILITATING POLICY FORMULATION AND

SUCH AS IN THOSE POLICY AREAS DEVELOPMENT. THERE ARE MANY OTHERS,

INDUSTRY, THE COVERED BY MY COLLEAGUES THE SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT AND SECRETARY FOR WORKS, AS WELL AS THE DEPARTMENTS UNDER THEIR PURVIEW.

THERE IS HOWEVER ONE AREA WHERE SERVICES ARE BEING LOOKED IF NOT COMPREHENSIVELY, AT LEAST ON AN ACROSS-THE-BOARD BASIS

AREAS IN WHICH THAT

ONE OF THE IS

THE CONTEXT OF TRADE. IN

AMBITIOUS THAN URUGUAY ROUND OF GATT NEGOTIATIONS IS FAR MORE PREDECESSORS IS

THE TO EXTEND

ON TRADE IN DISCRIMINATORY'

IN GATT

SEEKING

PRINCIPLES

HONG KONG

HAS

THE

ᎪᎢ .

AND

THE

ITS

* EQUAL ACCESS',

GOODS, TO

'NON-

THE MUCH

SERVICES.

THIS

HAS

BROADER, MORE COMPLEX AND DIVERSE FIELD OF TRADE IN CAN ONLY BE TO HONG KONG'S ADVANTAGE, JUST AS GATT MEMBERSHIP HAS BEEN THEREFORE BEEN AN ACTIVE WITH REGARD TO GOODS.

A STRONG AND PARTICIPANT IN THE SERVICE NEGOTIATIONS, WORKING FOR COMPREHENSIVE AGREEMENT

HÙNG HONG WITH MAXIMUM PARTICIPATION. THRIVED IN A FREE-MARKET ENVIRONMENT AND OUR SERVICE SECTORS STAND GAIN MUCH FROM THE LIBERALISATION AND DEREGULATION IN OTHER THAT SHOULD FOLLOW FROM A SUCCESSFUL MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON IN SERVICES.

ΤΟ

MARKETS TRÅDE

ENCOURAGED

IT WAS AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND THAT THE GOVERNMENT THE FORMATION OF THE HONG KONG COALITION OF SERVICE INDUSTRIES (HKCSI) THE HONG KONG WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED IN L990 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. THE HKCSI'S AIMS INCLUDE: -

PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SERVICE INDUSTRIES BOTH IN HONG KONG AND INTERNATIONALLY,

REPRESENTING

THE INTERESTS OF SERVICE

INDUSTRIES IN HONG BEHALF KONG, FORMULATING POLICIES AND MAKING SUBMISSIONS ON OF ITS MEMBERS,

ACHIEVING

ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING CO-OPERATION BETWEEN MEMBERS OF HONG KONG'S SERVICE INDUSTRIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMMON GOALS, AND

PROMOTING

THE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT" IN HONG KONG.

OF

A

"SERVICE

FRIENDLY

AND

IN

WITH

BETWEEN THE HKCSI THEREFORE PROVIDES A FOCAL POINT FOR LIAISON

WE HAVE BEEN WORKING THE GOVERNMENT. THE SERVICE SECTOR

CLOSELY

ROUND PARTICULARLY

CONNECTION

THE URUGUAY

ONLY NEGOTIATIONS. SINCE ITS INCEPTION THE HKCSI HAS BEEN ACTIVE NOT

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL LOCALLY

INTERNATIONALLY. IT HOSTED THE BUT

1991 WITH CONFERENCE OF COALITIONS OF SERVICE INDUSTRIES IN OCTOBER

WELL SPEAKERS FROM ITS COUNTERPART ORGANISATIONS AROUND THE WORLD AS

INCLUDING GATT AND THE AS INTERNATIONAL TRADE ORGANISATIONS, INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

MY

OWN

BRANCH

KEEPS

IN TOUCH

WITH

THE

HKCSI'S

FINANCIAL MEETINGS

SERVICES COMMITTEE. OTHER GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES ATTEND OF DIFFERENT SECTORAL COMMITTEES ESTABLISHED BY THE HKOSI AS WELL 'AS ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

THE EXISTENCE