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than 50% of any one duty-free quota to be available for any individual developing country.

How far would it be possible to work on a basis of excluding other countries as well as Hong Kong? At first sight it seems to me that this is something we could not possibly propose ourselves. The candidates for exclusion would be Taiwan, South Korea, Spain, Portugal and Greece and in the case of all of them there would at any given moment be very sound commercial reasons why we should not appear to be working against their interests by arguing for their exclusion from the generalised preference scheme.

There are probably other points we shall need to probe as well but the foregoing might provide the basis of a preliminary discussion with the Board of Trade.

Copy to:

MR. Holland

(W. I. Combs )

8 September, 1969

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