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Hong Kong Preference on Indian Tobacco
I saw Bharadwaj of the Indian High Commission on 6 October and handed him a reply to the Indian & Aide Memoire of 18 June 1969. Your letter of 12 September refers.
2. Bharadwaj said that he would have to refer the matter to Delhi and that he did not expect the matter to rest there. He said that the last week of the Kennedy Round was hectic, that the Government of India had failed to notice the loss of preference on Indian tobacco, and that therefore there had been no proper consultation on this issue.
3. I asked Bharadwaj what he meant by his reference to India's preferential treatment for Hong Kong imports. He said that there were preferences for Hong Kong goods in the Indian Customs Tariff and that, as far as he was aware, they were the same preferences as those enjoyed by the United Kingdom. He could not however quote them and would let us have a reply on this point in due
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The meeting was friendly but I do not think that we have heard the last of this subject. I attach copies of our reply and, where necessary, the Indian Aide Memoire of 18 June.
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(J. N. McKelvie)
A. F. Toms, Esq.,
Board of Trade,
1 Victoria Street,
LONDON, S.W.1.
Copies to:
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British High Commission, New Delhi. British High Commission, Zomba.
Governor, Hong Kong.
D.J.C. Jones, Esq., UKMIS. Geneva.
UKMIS Geneva.
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