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1840, B
DRAFT AIDE MEMOIRE
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U.K. Minion Comerta.
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Commonwealth
Affairs presents his compliments to the Belgian
Netherlands)
Ambassador and with reference to the Aide Memoire
the
dated 17th May, 1967, on the subject of the import
into Benelux countries of certain classes of textiles
from Hong Kong, has the honour to state that the
Hong Kong authorities:-
(1) Accept the request for consultations under Article 3 of the Long term arrangement
regarding international trade infcotton
textiles of the 1st October, 1962;
(2) will enter into consultations as soon as
the Aide Hemoire has been received and
studied in Hong Kong;
(3) will, as usual
negotiate directly with
the Benelux Governments and would welcome
a Benelux negotiating team in Hong Kong in
the immediate future;
(4) question the need for the imposition of
import restrictions prior to the consultations
and would point out that the situation
envisaged, under paragraph 2 of Article 3,
should not arise provided that the Benelux
Governments keep their requests for
consultations confidential, as the shipping
time to Rotterdam is approximately 30 days
by which time the consultations should have
begun;
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