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Trade Policy Department

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24 October, 1969

UNCTAD Preferences

Hong Kong

Thank you for your letter of 20 October about benefici- aries. I feel that our submission should be purely factual and I can, therefore, see no objection to using your statement as the basis for a Memorandum to be circulated within OECD.

2. You will, of course, appreciate that the definition of a "Dependent Territory" does not strictly incorporate those countries for whose external affairs the United Kingdom is responsible, e.g., Associated States, and we must ensure that this category is not excluded from our submission.

3. I attach a list of such countries and Dependent Territories, together with a suggested re-draft of your statement. We have not, of course, included Rhodesia which is in a special category, and I will be replying separately to your letter of 1 October on this subject.

4. Of the alternative procedures suggested in Tom Muir's letter of 22 October, I am inclined to favour a paper in the TC/Pref. series, but I am really not sufficiently familiar with the Committee procedures to offer a firm opinion.

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W. S. Carter, Esq., C.V.O. - Hong Kong Dept. Miss M. J. Lackey, C.R.E.2

R. Goldsmith, Esq., C.R.E.1

J. G. Morris, Esq., C.R.E.1

D. H. Hannay, Esq., UKDEL to EEC, Brussels

T. Muir, Esq., UKDEL to OECD, Paris

B. Fall, Esq., UKMIS Geneva

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