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DRAFT LETTER
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D. J. C. Jones, Esq.,
Commerce & Industries
Dept.,
HONG KONG.
Type 1 +
From
10/2
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Copies to:
D.I. Dunnett
Mr. Ingram
T
F.H. Jackson D.H.A. Hannay,
U.K. Delegation,
Brussels.
Nr. Sellers, H.K.
Gort Office.
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Thank you for your very full report (your letter of 12 June) on your discussions in Hong Kong with Ernst about EEC's common
commercial policy.
These exchanges with Ernst were touched or in discussions with David Jordan in the Board Trade on 23 June (and also, I understand, in his discussions with Sir James Marjoribanks an Freddie Jackson in Brussels last week). Jord emphasised how useful it had been to feed in t the Commission by this means some basic facts
It was about the French quotas on Hong Kong. generally agreed here that you handled Ernst very well and that there was value in maintaining this and such other informal conta with EEC officials as you and Bob Goldsmith
phoneal arrant that they have established in Geneva. vom to head at persent of
wave any final appworld to the tumepicting affe about the implication of Music Conferson Copycat Aling for Hong Kand
It was of course right of Hannay to see
danger in Ernst's declared intention of seekin by informal contacts, "an agreed position that would not prove unfavourable to Hong Kong".
But we are all too old hands at the game. to fall for that one; and we here knew that, following the well established precepts under which the conduct of Hong Kong's commercial relations is shared between us, you would not enter upon these talks on other than an exploratory basis and without commitment.
I am sending copies of this letter to Denzil Dunnett and Ingram in the Board of
Jackson Trade; and to Hannay in Brussels; and to Sellers
in your benden Mie
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The point you raise in para 11 of
Your letter and on which Freddie Jackson has touched in his letter to me of the hy
June
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was not discussed with David Our feeling
is that we should await- a more authoritative indication of the Community's intentions,
No comments yet.
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