TNAG-0044-FCO40-80-Exports-to-the-Benelux-countries-aide-memoires-1967 — Page 107

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1.

Memorandum

This Memorandum sets out the terms of an undertaking,

which has been given by the Government of Hong Kong to the Benelux

Governments regarding exports from Hong Kong to the Benelux

countries during the period 18th July, 1967 to 30th September, 1968

of certain woven cotton products, which were the subject of the

request for consultations under Article 3 of the Long Term

Arrangement regarding International Trade in Cotton Textiles

addressed to the Government of the United Kingdom by the Benelux

Governments in their Notes dated 17th May, 1967.

2.

This Memorandum also sets out the terms of a further

undertaking which has been given by the Government of Hong Kong

to the Benelux Governments regarding exports from Hong Kong to

the Benelux countries during the period 1st October, 1967 to 30 th

September, 1968 of cotton woven shirts, extending the undertaking

notified in the Director of Commerce and Industry's letter Ref. CR.5899/65II of 28th December, 1966 to the Consuls General

of Belgium and the Netherlands.

3.

In giving these undertakings regarding all these

products the Government of Hong Kong have had regard to:

(i) the Benelux Notes of 17th May, 1967;

(ii) the intention of the Benelux Governments

to resume free licensing with effect

from 18th July, 1967 for those products

mentioned in the Notes of 17th May, 1967;

(iii) the current undertaking in respect of

cotton woven shirts; and

(iv) the Protocol

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