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Registry

No. HK 6/28

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted.

Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

..In Confidence

Pt. Dype"

add

As

enclosures.

JMY

6/10/09

DRAFT

Letter

22

Type 1 + 10

To:-

A.F.Toms ESQ Board of Trade

1, Victoria Street

London Swi

From

J. N. McKelvie Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

T.P.D.

Hong Kong Preference on Indian Tobacco

I saw Ma Bharadwaj of the Indian High Commission Iств остава

today and handed him a reply to the Indian's Aide

Memoire of 18 June 1969. Your letter of 12 september refers.

2.

said

Bharadwaj stated that he would have to refer

the matter to Delhi and indicated that he did not expect

sand

the matter to rest there. He repeated thre

that the last week of the Kennedy Round was very hectic,

am that, although it could be said that the Government

had failed

was at faction

of India had committed a tactical sprer in failin

notice

and that observe the loss of preference on Indian tobacco, they

nevertheless did

less did not realise that this concession hac

had not

beer ne

no

and theref proper

(therefore considered that there

that ther

ere

been any prior consultation on this issue. In reply I

drew on Png argument expressed in paragraph 3 of our

en

Aide Memoire

3.

asked

I alee r

what he meant by his Bharadwaj's attention to the Indian reference to India's preferential treatment for Hous

High Commissian's letter of 1

ctter of 12 August in which Kong imports. He

were

the impoPE

tee of ting

asked to itporo ta Hanı Kər

preferential treatment India accords her exports and the

Consequential reciprocal obligations which would

naturally evolve on the Hong Kong GovCITICIIL". I said

(118281) Dd. 391599 1,500M 2/69 Hw.

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

that neither the

Governme

ernment nor tire

ag aware of the preferences which India

afforded to Hong Kong and we would be grateful if these

The

could be spelt out Mr. Bharathaj said that there were

Custom Farits. preferences for Hong Hong goods in India and that, as

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